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Download full textPomerance, Anita – 1990
A pilot tutor training project, the Student-Tutor Orientation (STO), was designed to meet the need for making whole-language concepts of reading and writing instruction accessible to tutors as well as students through hands-on experience and for establishing a collaborative tutoring relationship in which students share in decision making.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Experience Approach, Literacy Education
Rauch, Sidney J., Comp. – 1969
This handbook is designed for tutors who will be working with children, adolescents, or adults. In most instances the principles, practices, and materials described are directed to the junior high and senior high school student or dropout who requires special reading help; however, application of techniques can be made to adults or to youngsters…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Students
Padak, Nancy; Cook, Dale – 1990
This booklet contains nine 1-hour training sessions related to the components of family literacy programs. Each session may stand alone or be used in combination with any other. This provides trainers with the flexibility to base workshops on participants' needs and interests. Titles for the sessions include: (1) the process of literacy learning;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Children
Redman, Margaret C.; And Others – 1977
This teacher's manual is designed to accompany a reading kit intended to provide high interest reading materials for late adolescent and adult elementary-level readers (see note). Introductory information discusses the development of the reading exercises from unedited stories dictated by students (the Learning Experience Approach) and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Basic Reading
Vacca, Richard T., Ed. – The Journal of Language Experience, 1980
This journal issue contains six articles related to language-centered reading instruction, integrated language arts, and reading comprehension. The first article discusses the language experience approach (LEA) to developing comprehension skills in adult beginning readers. The second article describes examples of uses of LEA in such content areas…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Creative Development
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
