The Power of the Language Experience Approach for Struggling Readers
The language experience approach as it relates to word recognition makes available an instructional framework for teaching struggling readers. LEA provides:
A way to reinforce the one-to-one correspondence between spoken and written language
A meaningful context based on students’ knowledge and experience
The use of repeated readings of the same text as well as repetition of high-frequency words
A meaning context to examine components of language (words, phonemes, and morphemes)
The modeling of sentence structure by the teacher