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Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1994
This document incorporates source materials from local and regional newspapers from different parts of the United Kingdom into learning activities to develop literacy skills. The activities are organized into seven sections as follows: local newspapers (types of local newspapers, regular and special features, columns and blocks, and reading the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries
Steinfeld, Michael, Comp. – 1991
This compilation presents material related to a Library Literacy program, which was designed to collect, publish, and distribute the writing of new adult readers and whose target audience was students, teachers, tutors and librarians involved in library-based literacy programs in Massachusetts. The first part of the compilation presents the final…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Periodicals
Kimmons, Carol – 1984
Designed for use as supplemental reading, this book provides high interest reading material for beginning adult readers in rural areas of Tennessee. The book is printed in large type for readers with vision problems. Where appropriate, stories are written in a modified vernacular form. The book may be made more pertinent to geographic areas other…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books
Acosta, Joan, Ed. – 1988
This document consists of informative material on and a copy of a newspaper for adults who are learning to read. The newspaper is designed to help new readers develop reading skills, while providing interesting and relevant information with an adult focus. Local, national, and international news stories as well as information about health, safety,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Scales, Alice M.; Biggs, Shirley A. – 1983
This book addresses a wide range of reading needs by providing exercises that focus on comprehension and word strategies. It also provides an instructional process for meeting those needs. The instructional process is individualized, and is designed to: (1) assess initial reading competence; (2) direct learners to the chapters specifically related…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Reading Programs, Critical Reading, Higher Education
New Words Digest, 1990
This document consists of the four issues of the first annual volume of a quarterly magazine for new adult readers. It is aimed at adults reading at the fourth- to eighth-grade level. The magazine is designed to be self-motivating to the new reader or the learning disabled. Phonetic helps are provided for those words that do not conform to typical…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Daily Living Skills
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
Isaacson, Barbara; Miller, Gail – 1985
These instructional units are intended to help limited English proficient students establish the solid foundation of reading skills that will enable them to make a transition from English as a Second Language programs to General Educational Development or community college classes. An introduction and information on use of the lessons discuss the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Barnes, Martha; Rouse, June – 1985
This book is made up of six reading courses in the sciences, each of which is divided into several exercises. Each exercise has an objective and at least one reading selection. In most of the courses, the first objective is to acquaint the student with names and terms used in the subject being discussed. Exercises following the reading selection…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Biological Sciences, Biology
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