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Robson, Ed; And Others – 1990
This revised edition, based on literacy programs in Michigan, was written to reflect changing trends in reading and literacy in a book that can be used to train volunteer tutors, as well as by tutors and students together in weekly sessions. The book is organized in eight sections. The first section differentiates literacy and reading and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Resources
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
Willoughby, Mary; Walsh, Susan, Ed. – 1991
This manual was developed to help trainers and volunteer coordinators prepare volunteers who tutor adults in basic skills. It is based on 9 of the 11 workshops presented at a Training the Trainer conference in Colorado. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 6 provide background information for training. Chapters 3, 5, and 7-9 provide materials for presenting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach
Butler, Shelley – 1991
This handbook was created through participatory research between November 1989 and July 1990. It includes ideas, experiences, and stories contributed by learners, tutors, teachers, and organizers at St. Christopher House, a group home for people with disabilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The handbook contains five sections: (1) who are the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Disabilities
Cameron, Joyce; Rabinowitz, Myrna – 1988
This guide, developed in British Columbia, is intended to help tutors teach literacy skills to adults. In nine chapters, it covers the basics of teaching reading and writing to adults, through short case histories, anecdotes, and information about adult learning. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) the joys of tutoring; (2) getting to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
Cohen, Judy; And Others – 1981
The LEX [language experience] Process for English Reading Instruction, a pilot project of the Guadalupe Educational Programs, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, during 1980-81, is presented in this 300-page manual that describes how the LEX Process model may be replicated by educational agencies seeking to provide survival and functional English as a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
