LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE-APPROACH (J Gordon) LEA is used to teach students to read from their own retelling of an experience. Jeanette Gordon summarizes the strategy, provides support for using the approach with ELLs individually or in multi-level classes. Suggestions for teaching writing, differentiated follow-up literacy tasks and other resources developed with Lucia Morales are included. in English as a New Languagewith differentiationeslgordonlealiteracyreadingwriting