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"Nessel and Dixon show teachers how to effectively support English language development by using the Language Experience Approach."
—David E. Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman, Professors of Literacy, ESL, and Bilingual Education
The University of Texas at Brownsville
"Provides the tools teachers need to use this natural way of helping English Language Learners. The Language Experience Approach makes language and language arts accessible to the students in need of basic skills."
—Roberta E. Dorr, Associate Professor of Education
Trinity University, WA
Support ELLs while meeting the goals of your literacy curriculum!
English Language Learners (ELLs) enter the classroom with different levels of proficiency—and confidence—in English. The Language Experience Approach offers K-12 teachers an instructional framework and classroom strategies for meeting students at their level and helping them use their strengths as speakers and listeners to build reading and writing skills.
Research-based and used successfully in practice, this method actively engages students by allowing them to construct their own texts and bring their personal experiences into the learning process. The authors:
Offer detailed, step-by-step directions for using the Language Experience Approach in English language instruction
Include examples of the kinds of texts that are generated by ELL students
Describe activities teachers can use with those texts to refine and extend learners' literacy skills
Appropriate for teaching students at varying levels of English proficiency, Using the Language Experience Approach With English Language Learners is a valuable reference for teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction to the Language Experience Approach
1. The Value of LEA for English Language Learners: An Overview
2. Reading From Experience for Beginners
3. Reading From Experience for Intermediate Students
4. Reading From Experience for Advanced Students
5. Vocabulary and Word Recognition in an LEA Program
6. Writing in an LEA Program
7. Putting It All Together
Appendix A: LEA and State Standards
References
Index
