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Lever, Linda – 1990
The reading instructor working with adult "beginners" needs to have an open mind, be willing to be imaginative and adventurous, and think positively. The basic approach requires the instructor to build beginners' confidence; encourage beginners to participate fully, think for themselves, and learn to learn; involve beginners in planning; and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques
Lifelong Learning, 1983
The purpose of this document is to provide a step-by-step outline of the language experience approach. It first explains this technique for teaching both words and sentences to beginning readers. Steps are outlined first for teaching words, then for teaching sentences. What to do and what to say is suggested for each step. Teaching words includes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Jones, Edward V. – Lifelong Learning, 1986
Because reading is first and foremost a language comprehension process focusing on the visual form of spoken language, such teaching strategies as language experience and assisted reading have much to offer beginning readers. These techniques have been slow to become accepted by many adult literacy instructors; however, the two strategies,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Rice, Gail – 1983
The adult basic education teacher of undereducated adults must know how to use techniques and materials that ensure success at the most basic levels. The language experience approach is one of the most effective techniques to use with these learners. Of the four language experience methods, the dictation and transcription methods are best suited…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Beginning Reading, Instructional Material Evaluation, Language Experience Approach
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Weibel, Marguerite Crowley – Journal of Reading, 1983
Describes public library materials appropriate for adult literacy students and suggests methods of incorporating them into instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Fiction, Language Experience Approach
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
This reader, the first in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
This reader, the second in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Lower, Carl W. – 1985
This reader, the third in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
This reader, the fourth in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
This reader, the fifth in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
This reader, the sixth in a series of six, was developed to support one-to-one tutoring of adults in a reading program. It contains language experience stories and their accompanying skills exercises and comprehension questions. The reading level of the readers correlates to the reading levels of the Laubach Skill Books available from Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Marr, Beth; And Others – 1994
This document, which was developed to meet the needs of trainers and workers in Australia's automotive industry for learning activities designed to boost auto workers' numeracy skills, contains a total of 33 learning activities organized into 8 sections. The topics covered in the individual sections are as follows: calculators (key words and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Calculators
Lawson, V. K.; And Others – 1988
This guide is intended for use by teachers and tutors who are using the assisted reading method to teach reading to adult learners. The introduction describes the contents of the guide and the other materials in the Read On! II series, i.e., six textbooks, six workbooks, and a set of tutor resource sheets for use with learners at the beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Robson, Ed; And Others – 1990
This revised edition, based on literacy programs in Michigan, was written to reflect changing trends in reading and literacy in a book that can be used to train volunteer tutors, as well as by tutors and students together in weekly sessions. The book is organized in eight sections. The first section differentiates literacy and reading and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Resources
Lawson, V. K.; And Others – 1987
This textbook is the first of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
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