LEA: Language Experience Approach

1. LEA: Language Experience Approach Dr. Kristen Pennycuff Trent

2. Language Experience Approach: LEA • LEA interrelates the different language arts and uses the children’s experiences as the basis for reading materials. • All children have experiences that can be converted to stories • Concrete experiences can be provided to help create the stories • Stories developed by children: • Motivational • More meaningful because language of the children used • Effectively used for ELL children: provides material they can understand

3. Language Experience Approach: LEA • Participating in a common experience • Discussing the experience • Cooperative writing of the story on a chart, board, or computer • Participating in extension activities related to the story

4. Language Experience Approach LEA • Advantages: • Children see transformation of oral language to print including directionality, spacing between words, meanings, punctuation, and capitalization • Children see relationships between reading and their oral language • Teacher observations during dictation and reading provide diagnostic insights into children’s reading difficulties

5. LEA Advantages • Variety of modes of learning offers something to all children • Auditory: dictation or read aloud • Kinesthetic: writing the stories • Visual: reading stories • Promotes good self-concept • What they have to say is important enough to write down and others interested • Promotes close contact between teacher and students • Remedial older learners and ELL consider this reading more authentic than some of the remedial material exposed to in classroom • Excellent way to provide variety of programs that are need to teach reading

6. Language Experience Approach: LEA • Implementation in Kindergarten: • Emphasize oral language can be recorded and reconstructed • Process writing—choose topics, discussion, drawing, and dramatic play before writing, drafts used • Teaching of vocabulary, decoding, and comprehension skills • Show-and-tell writing—invented spelling

7. Language Experience Approach-LEA • Implementation in the Primary Grades: • Participating in a common experience • Discussing the experience • Cooperative writing of the story on a chart, board, or a computer • Participation in extension activities related to the story • Rereading story • Finding words • Matching sentences with sentence strips • Word banks—word cards containing words a child has used in stories • Used for sight vocabulary, word recognition skills, and develop comprehension skills • Writing of Computer-generated stories • Illustration of stories • Sharing of stories • Creation of books

8. Language Experience Approach-LEA • Implementation in Higher Grades: • Content area instruction: • Writing the result of scientific experiments • Comparing and contrasting people, things, or events • Writing directions for performing a task • Computer-generation important • Enter stories easily, ease of revision without recopying • Direct teaching of story structure during LEA helpful to older remedial learners • Include revision and editing as natural extensions

9. Language Experience Approach: LEA • Participating in a common experience • Discussing the experience • Cooperative writing of the story on a chart, board, or computer • Participating in extension activities related to the story

10. Language Experience Approach: LEA • Your Turn: Create an LEA for your third grade students who have just returned from a field trip to the fire station. Remember to include all the steps. • Participating in a common experience • Discussing the experience • Cooperative writing of the story on a chart, board, or computer • Participating in extension activities related to the story

11. Language Experience Approach: LEA • Jigsaw the sample lesson plan for LEAs. • Home team • Expert teams • Unit-Set • Instruction • Closure-Assessment and Evaluation • Supplemental Activities-Reflection of the Candidate