LEA Lesson Plan
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LEALessonPlan.docxLanguage Experience Approach (LEA)
Lesson Plan / Step by Step
The language experience approach combines all the language arts- listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
The theory behind the Success of the Language Experience Approach
The language experience approach uses the language of the students as the basis for the writing materials that will later be read by those same students. When a student dictates something to the teacher or writes something them self; it will naturally be something in which the student is interested and will also be something that the student will understand with no difficulty. Furthermore, it will be written at a reading level appropriate for the student, and its content will not insult the student regardless of age.
Using the Language Experience Approach
In using the language experience approach you will need to follow a sequence such as the one below to develop your lesson plan:
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Theory, Purpose, Focus, Skills, Consideration, Teaching Topic (s)
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Objective for lesson |
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Student Generated topics of interest, Problem Solving, Self-concept, Goal Oriented, Prior Knowledge, Activity
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What will the students use for their Language experience approach? |
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Student input is valued. Appeal to visual learning style; Listening, Speaking, Student Participation
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Title of the LEA. |
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Writing: student comfort level; Mistakes are OK, Progression – easy to difficult; Demonstrate that what is said can be written; Error correction
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Guidelines when writing the story: · Use the type of writing to which the students are accustomed · Use the language that the students suggest and make very few, if any changes
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Listening and Reading Skills
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What activity will the students do to include these skills? |
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Reading: group work, (helps shy students participate)
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How will the students read their own written work? What will this look like? |
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Reading: student engagement, Kinesthetic activity
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How will you incorporate engagement/bodily movement into the LEA? |
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Family Engagement: Tangible, concrete; homework
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What will you have the students do to involve the family? What will this look like? |
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Follow up/Warm Up: activity that builds on past lesson, connection to this experience
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What will the follow up and warm up activity be for the students? |
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Consistency, Pattern establishment, assessment
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Depending on the type of LEA that is done, what the consistent skills that you will address each time you revisit the students’ story? |
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Independent work: build confidence; positive reinforcement
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What activities will you tie into this LEA? |
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Role of Grammar/Cloze Activity; Teaching vocabulary, assessment
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What grammar skills will be addressed in this LEA? |
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Extension Activity, Learning vocabulary; related texts
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What other material will be used to enhance comprehension? What vocabulary strategies will be incorporated into this LEA? How will you extend this lesson (what else can you do with this?) |
