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We "Booked" Brown Bag Talks.
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Cook, Georgia; Kanable, Marian – English Journal, 1984
Describes how prominent teachers and community members were invited to read and speak on books related to their subject of interest during school lunch breaks and records the success of the program. (CRH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Program Content, Reading Interests, Recreational Reading
A Last Chance at Literacy: Real World Reading Comes to a Job Corps Camp.
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Rigg, Pat; Kazemek, Francis E. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes a program designed to build a literate environment to meet the strengths and needs of Job Corps trainees. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Literacy Education, Nontraditional Students
Read Aloud Tutoring: A Program to Enhance Reading Interests.
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Anderson, Ora Sterling – Reading Horizons, 1984
Describes a reading program that used community volunteers to read aloud to elementary school children. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Content, Program Descriptions, Reading Aloud to Others
Phases of College and Other Adult Reading Programs; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (10th, Fort Worth, Texas, December 1-3, 1960).
Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Kingston, Albert J., Jr., Ed. – 1961
Focusing on phases of college and other adult reading programs, the papers in this volume were drawn from the tenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1960. Among the topics discussed in the 15 papers are the following: reading improvement in government, contributions of education to college and adult reading, the influence…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
New Concepts in College-Adult Reading; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (13th, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 5-7, 1963).
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1964
Focusing on new concepts in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1963. The 20 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains descriptions and evaluations of reading programs, a study of methods of training teachers for the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Problems, Programs, and Projects in College-Adult Reading; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (11th, Fort Worth, Texas, December 7-9, 1961).
Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Staiger, Ralph C., Ed. – 1962
Focusing on problems, programs, and projects in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the eleventh annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1961. The 29 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains studies and theoretical papers that deal with reading speed and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
College Reading: Problems and Programs of Junior and Senior Colleges; Twenty-first Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume II.
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs