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Handel, Ruth D. – 1990
An intergenerational literacy program addresses the needs of adult students enrolled in remedial reading classes at a community college. Their classroom behavior marked by passivity or anxiety, these students are usually able to derive the surface meanings of familiar text, but demonstrate little analytic or reflective thinking about what was…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Childrens Literature, Intergenerational Programs