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Milligan, Barbara – Australian Journal of Reading, 1982
Describes several approaches used in trying to teach an adult to learn to read over a period of several years, including the approach that was successful (language experience) because the student was highly motivated to write. (JM)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach, Learning Motivation
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Las Vegas, NV. – 1989
This curriculum guide was developed for tutors using the "Challenger Adult Reading Series." The guide is intended to help tutors make the lessons more effective, motivational, and meaningful for students. The guide is based on a five-part lesson plan prescribed by the Computer-Assisted Literacy in Libraries (CALL) program: language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Individual Activities
Lifelong Learning, 1983
The purpose of this document is to provide a step-by-step outline of the language experience approach. It first explains this technique for teaching both words and sentences to beginning readers. Steps are outlined first for teaching words, then for teaching sentences. What to do and what to say is suggested for each step. Teaching words includes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. – 1972
An overview of the language experience approach and suggestions for implementing it at all levels of instruction are presented in this booklet. Based on the assumption that it is impossible to isolate reading instruction from other language functions, a multimethod approach is described which focuses on the linguistic, conceptual, and perceptual…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Class Organization
Jones, Edward V. – Lifelong Learning, 1986
Because reading is first and foremost a language comprehension process focusing on the visual form of spoken language, such teaching strategies as language experience and assisted reading have much to offer beginning readers. These techniques have been slow to become accepted by many adult literacy instructors; however, the two strategies,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Keefe, Donald; Meyer, Valerie – 1988
The Literacy Prescription Project has served 250 clients in Illinois by providing individualized instruction and complete diagnostic reports--developing four profiles of adult disabled readers who can be treated with associated instructional techniques. Profile One adults cannot read the simplest pre-primer text and can only recognize a few words…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Instructional Improvement
Spache, George D. – 1975
The focus of this book is on improving reading instruction among disadvantaged minority groups through the language experience approach. Four chapters contain discussions of self-concept, the growth of self-concept, reading instruction and the disadvantaged, and adult literacy. The other 16 chapters consist of bibliographies on the heritage of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Partridge, Susan – 1989
Adult literacy programs could be improved by determining the learning styles and life-styles of individual students and incorporating the findings into the instructional program. Many researchers have looked at adult students' lives and suggested teaching methods based on the studies. Some suggest using an instrument for identifying adults'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Cognitive Style
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
Johnston, Joyce D.; And Others – 1975
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
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