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Schiller, Pam – 2000
Combining the language experience approach and phonics instruction, this guide provides parents and early childhood teachers a comprehensive resource for developing a strong foundation for pre-readers. The guide offers over 1,000 activities, games, fingerplays, songs, tongue-twisters, poems, and stories for the letters of the alphabet to develop a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Games, 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
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
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
Project PROUD (People Reading Their Own Unique Dictation) was designed to focus on the problems associated with book-centered, one-to-one tutoring to help adults learn to read. The problems that the project sought to eliminate were uninteresting, nonpertinent materials; focus on single skills rather than reading as communication; lack of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Willoughby, Mary; Walsh, Susan, Ed. – 1991
This manual was developed to help trainers and volunteer coordinators prepare volunteers who tutor adults in basic skills. It is based on 9 of the 11 workshops presented at a Training the Trainer conference in Colorado. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 6 provide background information for training. Chapters 3, 5, and 7-9 provide materials for presenting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach
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
Gunter, Jock – 1972
This document describes a literacy project in rural Ecuador using a modified version of Sylvia Ashton Warner's language experience approach. This method allows learners to approach written culture on their own terms by learning words important to their life, then transferring these works to sentences and stories. The approach reduces the rural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Daily Living Skills
Burke, Lisa S. – 1993
This independent training manual, which is intended for individuals preparing to become adult literacy tutors in Pennsylvania, provides an introduction to the basic principles and techniques of tutoring adult literacy students. Presented first are a preface, definition of literacy, and tutor awareness inventory. The following topics are examined:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure
Martin, Sabrina Budasi – 1996
This teaching guide contains the materials required to teach the workplace English-as-a-second-language curriculum that was designed specifically for nonnative English speakers at a shirt and tie manufacturing plant in Kentucky. Developed through the efforts of a partnership involving the plant, the local union of needle trades and textile…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives