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Tucker, Jim; Bartz, Ruth – 1980
Designed for junior high school teachers and students, this competency-based vocabulary guide offers 16 units of study on survival vocabulary. Included in the guide are a student section and a teacher key. Each unit in the student section contains a word list and four or more exercises which include definitions, word classification, word search,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Vocabulary, Functional Reading, Junior High Schools
Download full textMississippi Materials & Resource Center, Gulfport. – 1986
This curriculum guide, designed for use with secondary migrant students, contains activities in the reading areas of structural analysis, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, vocabulary, and reading in the content areas. Within these four broad areas, activities are presented in the following specific skill areas: (1) hearing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Functional Reading, Learning Activities
Brigham, Rick; Snyder, Jim. – 1986
The guide is intended to help teachers of mildly handicapped (learning disabled, behavior disordered, and mildly retarded) students develop and modify language arts activities keyed to specific learning needs. A preliminary chapter discusses principles of teaching for mastery and generalization including sequential modification, identifying and…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading, Generalization
Morrow, Cherie – 2000
Part of a series of instructor guides designed to support Ohio's ACT Work Keys System, this book addresses the skills required to read and understand the kinds of documents used in the workplace and to apply the information they contain in performing job tasks. It is for teachers, tutors, parents, mentors, and trainers seeking strategies for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Functional Reading, Information Literacy, Instructional Materials
Barnes, Martha; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this curriculum guide is to assist Training Specialists in teaching Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development (ABE/GED) students basic skills in language arts and mathematics. The guide begins with an introduction (purpose, overview, adult learner characteristics, teacher type), curriculum policies, curriculum structure,…
Descriptors: Addition, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic
Carnes, Sandy; And Others – 1995
This curriculum offers an eclectic, multisensorial, holistic, and flexible approach to reading. Sections I and II are an introduction and information on using the curriculum. Section III offers strategies for working with adults. Section IV describes means of formal and informal assessment of the learner. Section V presents an overview of ways…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Stubbs, Jean; And Others – 1984
A model program was designed to provide objective ways of measuring the academic and vocational needs of a maintenance and custodial work force and to develop a core curriculum based on the information obtained. To gather data, the researchers administered a needs assessment survey and conducted interviews of staff and management of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Core Curriculum
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1987
This guide is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors who are teaching adults and teenagers to read. The nature and extent of the adult illiteracy problem and the process of learning to read are discussed in the first chapter. The characteristics that are desirable in basic reading tutors and those that are encountered in adult learners…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, Lancaster, PA. – 1983
This teacher's guide is designed for use in helping adult basic education (ABE) students to develop beginning language skills. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: occupational knowledge, consumer economics, health and safety, government and law, and community resources. Each unit contains some or all of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives
