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TRENDS IN ADULT READING.

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MILLER, JUSTIN H. – 1966

TRENDS EVIDENT IN ADULT READING DURING THE 1960'S IN THE AREAS OF ADMINISTRATION, PROGRAMS, TEACHING, TECHNIQUES, RESEARCH PROJECTS, AND METHODS OF PROMOTION OF READING PROGRAMS ARE DISCUSSED. TWO INSTANCES OF COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION BASED ON INTENSE AND OFTEN FALLACIOUS ADVERTISING AND ON PUBLIC IGNORANCE ARE CITED. A POSITIVE TREND IN THE AREA…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Educational Trends, Inner Speech (Subvocal)

Learning to Read. Focus 4.

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Bishop, Arthur, Ed. – 1978

In view of the fact that 13% of the 9, 13, and 17-year-old students in the United States have been found to be functionally illiterate in a national study, this booklet was produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to review efforts that have been undertaken to strengthen students' command of reading skills. Among the topics discussed are…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment

Investigations Relating to Mature Reading; Twenty-first Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume I.

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 research and teacher training concerns relating to mature reading, the 43 papers are arranged into the following categories: advanced organizers, cloze investigations, language investigations, measurement…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Advance Organizers, Cloze Procedure, Conference Reports

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

New Frontiers in College-Adult Reading; Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (15th, Dallas, Texas, December 2-4, 1965).

Shick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1966

Focusing on new frontiers in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1965. Among the topics covered in the 26 papers are the following: reading in the Guatemalan environment, the use of instrumentation in reading, correlates of concentration, the…

Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading

Reading: The Right to Participate; Twentieth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.

Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1971

Focusing on the right to read, the articles in this volume were drawn from the twentieth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1970. Among the topics discussed in the 50 articles are the following: oral associates as predictors of verbal ability, reading readiness, the reading process, reading diagnosis, adult reading programs,…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking

Reading: Process and Pedagogy; Nineteenth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume I: Process.

Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970

This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…

Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading