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A Last Chance at Literacy: Real World Reading Comes to a Job Corps Camp.

Peer reviewed

Rigg, Pat; Kazemek, Francis E. – Journal of Reading, 1984

Describes a program designed to build a literate environment to meet the strengths and needs of Job Corps trainees. (AEA)

Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Literacy Education, Nontraditional Students

Put a Little Romantic Fiction into Your Reading Program.

Peer reviewed

Parrish, Berta – Journal of Reading, 1983

Discusses the genre of romantic fiction written for teens, proposes research questions, and provides publisher information for teachers who wish to stimulate teenage pleasure reading. (AEA)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Motivation Techniques, Program Content, Program Descriptions

Helping Students to Read Effectively in the Content Areas.

Wilson, Rosemary – Australian Journal of Reading, 1986

Describes a reading program for teaching study strategies in depth that integrates reading development with content area teaching. Recommends that course content teachers be responsible for reading development and that these teachers be offered instruction in teaching the strategies appropriate for study reading. (SRT)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Metacognition, Program Content

Phases of College and Other Adult Reading Programs; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (10th, Fort Worth, Texas, December 1-3, 1960).

Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Kingston, Albert J., Jr., Ed. – 1961

Focusing on phases of college and other adult reading programs, the papers in this volume were drawn from the tenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1960. Among the topics discussed in the 15 papers are the following: reading improvement in government, contributions of education to college and adult reading, the influence…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education

New Concepts in College-Adult Reading; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (13th, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 5-7, 1963).

Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1964

Focusing on new concepts in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1963. The 20 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains descriptions and evaluations of reading programs, a study of methods of training teachers for the…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education

Direction for Alabama Reading Teachers--A Handbook.

Alabama Univ., Birmingham. – 1975

Designed to help teachers, especially Title I teachers, improve reading programs, this handbook presents guidelines for (1) enhancing the diagnostic-prescriptive reading system approach to teaching and learning, (2) promoting the continuity of learning from level to level, (3) broadening the range of skills taught, and (4) developing interest in…

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes

Problems, Programs, and Projects in College-Adult Reading; Yearbook of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (11th, Fort Worth, Texas, December 7-9, 1961).

Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Staiger, Ralph C., Ed. – 1962

Focusing on problems, programs, and projects in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the eleventh annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1961. The 29 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains studies and theoretical papers that deal with reading speed and comprehension.…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education

College Reading: Problems and Programs of Junior and Senior Colleges; Twenty-first Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume II.

Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972

This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs