The purpose of this publication is to provide kindergarten teachers with the rationale, ideas, and activities necessary for implementing an experience-based language/prereading program in their classrooms. The various sections contain a rationale for using language experience activities; suggestions for classroom management of such activities; and descriptions of language experience activities for the classroom involving active interaction, speaking and listening, functional language, movement from speech to print, and phoneme/grapheme relationships. The publication also contains a teacher's daily checklist of language experiences and a statement of concerns about preschool reading instruction. A list of resources for use in organizing language experience activities is included. (FL)