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Download full textKent State Univ., OH. Ohio Literacy Resource Center. – 1997
This three-page guide provides teaching suggestions for learning activities for adult literacy education classes using the book "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant. This book is about a 12-year-old girl, Summer, who has lived with her Aunt May and Uncle Ob since she was 6 years old. After May's death, Summer, Ob and a neighborhood boy begin…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Field Tests
Winand, Lois L.; Morris, Vivian Gunn – 1989
The purpose of this project was to strengthen consumer and homemaking education programs in New Jersey by increasing the competence of home economics educators to meet the needs of school-age pregnant and parenting students through their programs. The objectives of the project were: (1) to field test a curriculum designed for school-age pregnant…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Early Parenthood
Hart-Landsberg, Sylvia – 1982
This report describes the yearlong case study based on participant observation at a school which used ThinkAbout, a series of 60 15-minute instructional television programs designed to strengthen the reasoning skills of fifth and sixth graders, and to review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and study skills. Discussion covers the patterns…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Field Tests
Scanlon, James A. – 1983
A project was conducted to develop a set of curriculum materials for use in implementing an instructional strategy to teach mechanical skills in secondary level exploratory vocational agricultural programs in Arkansas. The specifics of the project were to field test and refine an empirical method for developing and implementing an instructional…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration
Boraks, Nancy; And Others – 1982
A project was undertaken to develop, field test, and revise strategies for adult beginning readers (ABRs). During the first phase of the study, the researchers identified roadblocks to use of word recognition clues by ABRs. Based on data and feedback from local and state piloting and general principles of learning, the project staff developed the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Stephens, Barbara; Jacobus, Jane – 1985
A four-phase project was undertaken to expand adult basic education (ABE) program outreach to meet the needs of the underserved, rurally isolated, older residents of south and southwest Iowa. The first phase of the project consisted of an advisory committee project review, a series of ABE staff interviews of senior citizens residing in the area,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Aging (Individuals), Consumer Education
