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Peer reviewedKossack, Sharon – Journal of Reading, 1988
Presents teaching ideas using the classified advertising sections of newspapers, noting that the ability to decipher classifieds ads is an important life skill. (SKC)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Functional Reading, Newspapers, Reading Improvement
Sainz, Jo-Ann; Biggins, Maria Goretti – 1980
A systematic model for accelerating the process of developing the word decoding skills and building the vocabularies of bilingual adults was used among prison populations in Rockland County, Dutchess County, Suffolk County, and Essex County, New York, as well as in work-study programs in community centers in New York City. Literacy levels of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Bilingualism
San Antonio State Hospital, TX. Office of Education Services. – 1983
This instructional manual consists of materials for use in implementing a computer-assisted instructional program in reading skills development for adult nonreaders. Discussed first are the project during which this instructional program and manual were developed and the goals of the computer-assisted beginning reading program, a major feature of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Clues
