The Language Experience Approach to the teaching of reading.

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The Language Experience Approach to the teaching
of reading.

• How ICT can be used to make it more accessible.

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What is it?

• It is an approach to reading in which the childs
  own language and experiences is used to create
  reading material.
• It is not a new idea but the computer and digital
  camera or scanner make the creation of attractive
  individual books very feasible.

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Advantages

• It integrates the four language processes.
• It is child centered.brings new reader to the
  text rather than the other way around.
• Aids comprehension..the reader and composer are
  one and the same person. The child understands
  that text carries meaning
• It is enjoyable and allows the child and his or
  her life to become known.

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More advantages

• Highly motivating.
• Link between home and school.
• Boosts self esteem
• Incorporates emotion and fun something missing
  from low level commercially produces material.
• Can be used to develop sight vocabulary and
  comprehension via cloze exercises.

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Procedure for the use of ICT and the Language
Experience Approach.

• Explain to the child that our aim is to write our
  own book about themselves, their lives and
  interests.
• Talk to the child eliciting information about him
  or herself.
• Type as the child talks.
• Make occasional mistakes so as to show the delete
  facility of the word processor.