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Lesson 4.3: Language Experience Aproach

Focus: Become familiar with the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and why it is effective with culturally diverse students.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Readings

NOTE: To print the linked documents, do the following:

    • Put your mouse on the document and right click. You will see a window that asks you where you want to download the document.
    • Determine where you want to save the document.
    • After saving the document, open and print it in MS Word.
  1. Read Language Experience Approach in this lesson.
  2. Read Literacy Education Certificate Course II (pp. 105-120).

3. Classroom Application

    • Reread the planning and implementing an LEA Lesson section of Language Experience Approach in this lesson and follow the directions.
    • Plan an LEA lesson for a student or a group of students who are at a beginning reading level and would benefit from this approach.

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Share your reflection journal entries.
  2. Discuss the professional readings and your LEA lesson, using the following questions:
    • What insights have you learned from implementing an LEA lesson?
    • How does LEA help native language speakers?
  3. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Email a copy of your LEA Lesson Plan to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_lea_lessonplan.
  2. The recorder emails a copy of the Collaboration Group notes to the instructor.
  3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.