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Peer reviewedWilson, Lorraine – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes an experience based reading program developed in Melbourne, Australia, for low-income and immigrant children and a series of books to be published which are based on this program. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWales, M. Lynn – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes how a language experience approach was used in a workplace literacy program for adult immigrant railroad workers in Australia. Describes how the workshop built on participants' developed oral skills and life experience to create texts that were relevant, interesting, and comprehensible to these learners. (SR)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Foreign Countries
Dwyer, L. J. – Exceptional Child, 1976
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Concept Formation, Cultural Differences
McLeod, John N. – 1979
"Journeys Unlimited," a piece of theater-in-education performed by Australia's Bouverie St. Theatre-in-Education team during one term in 1979 and described in this paper, formed an integral component of a larger curriculum development program undertaken in Australian primary schools. This analysis of "Journeys Unlimited" is…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatics, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Fleming, J. – Exceptional Child, 1976
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Download full textMarr, 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
Pollock, John F.; Brown, Garth H. – 1980
A study investigated ways of establishing links between different methods of reading instruction, children's conceptualizations of the reading process, and children's actual reading behavior. Two instruments were used to assess the relationships between the three variables: a revised version of "The Reading Miscue Inventory" and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Children
