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Clewell, Suzanne F., Ed.; Wagoner, Shirley A., Ed. – 1990
Intended for reading professionals, this yearbook contains 13 articles dealing with reading and allied fields divided into 2 sections: "Issues" and "Practices." The following articles focus on issues: "Wish Fulfillment and Other Dangers in Reading" (Joan Develin Coley); "Emergent Reading Research: Synthesis and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
Lumpkin, Donavon, Ed.; And Others – 1987
Articles in this yearbook contribute to a broad perspective of changing concepts of reading, each focusing attention on an area of major factors exercising current impact on reading and on the education of reading teachers. The articles and their authors are as follows: "Learning from Text" (T. Estes); "Untying the Gordian Knot" (W. Blanton and G.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
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
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
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
Literacy Council of Alaska, Fairbanks. – 1984
This manual addresses a variety of issues in the recruitment and training of volunteer English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers. Sections on general topics focus on: recruiting tutors, recruiting students, determining when and where to train volunteers, developing the training workshop agenda, evaluating the workshop, introducing the training…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Diagnostic Tests
