Author: Steven E. Mayer
Publisher:
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Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages :
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Starting an Effective Adult Literacy Program
Author: Steven E. Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages :
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How to Start an Effective Adult Literacy Program
Author: Maureen Schild
Publisher: Literacy Volunteers of
ISBN: 9780929631677
Category : Literacy programs
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher: Literacy Volunteers of
ISBN: 9780929631677
Category : Literacy programs
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
How to Start an Effective Adult Literacy Program
Author: Maureen Schild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929631431
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929631431
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Improving Adult Literacy Instruction
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309219590
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness in the global economy. Yet, more than 90 million U.S. adults lack adequate literacy. Furthermore, only 38 percent of U.S. 12th graders are at or above proficient in reading. Improving Adult Literacy Instruction synthesizes the research on literacy and learning to improve literacy instruction in the United States and to recommend a more systemic approach to research, practice, and policy. The book focuses on individuals ages 16 and older who are not in K-12 education. It identifies factors that affect literacy development in adolescence and adulthood in general, and examines their implications for strengthening literacy instruction for this population. It also discusses technologies for learning that can assist with multiple aspects of teaching, assessment,and accommodations for learning. There is inadequate knowledge about effective instructional practices and a need for better assessment and ongoing monitoring of adult students' proficiencies, weaknesses, instructional environments, and progress, which might guide instructional planning. Improving Adult Literacy Instruction recommends a program of research and innovation to validate, identify the boundaries of, and extend current knowledge to improve instruction for adults and adolescents outside school. The book is a valuable resource for curriculum developers, federal agencies such as the Department of Education, administrators, educators, and funding agencies.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309219590
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness in the global economy. Yet, more than 90 million U.S. adults lack adequate literacy. Furthermore, only 38 percent of U.S. 12th graders are at or above proficient in reading. Improving Adult Literacy Instruction synthesizes the research on literacy and learning to improve literacy instruction in the United States and to recommend a more systemic approach to research, practice, and policy. The book focuses on individuals ages 16 and older who are not in K-12 education. It identifies factors that affect literacy development in adolescence and adulthood in general, and examines their implications for strengthening literacy instruction for this population. It also discusses technologies for learning that can assist with multiple aspects of teaching, assessment,and accommodations for learning. There is inadequate knowledge about effective instructional practices and a need for better assessment and ongoing monitoring of adult students' proficiencies, weaknesses, instructional environments, and progress, which might guide instructional planning. Improving Adult Literacy Instruction recommends a program of research and innovation to validate, identify the boundaries of, and extend current knowledge to improve instruction for adults and adolescents outside school. The book is a valuable resource for curriculum developers, federal agencies such as the Department of Education, administrators, educators, and funding agencies.
Fighting to Finish
Author: Richardson Otis Allen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059530673X
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059530673X
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Handbook for Organizing and Managing Literacy Programs for Adults
Author: National Institute for Advanced Studies (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Adult Literacy Program Handbook
Author: Andres R. Montez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Adult Literacy and New Technologies
Author:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Equipped for the Future
Author: Sondra Gayle Stein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Achieving Adult Literacy
Author: Pamela J. Farris
Publisher:
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Category : Elementary education of adults
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Leaders in business and industry are demanding workers who not only can read and write but can think creatively and critically and solve problems. Federal- and state-funded programs and volunteer organizations are involved with adult literacy. Increasingly, corporations are funding adult literacy projects. Adults read for different reasons than they did when in school. Their reading relates to work-related tasks; they read to keep up with current events or for their own enjoyment. A first goal of an adult literacy program should be to enhance the self-esteem and self-concept of low-literate adults. Appropriate instructional strategies are the language experience approach; cooperative learning; dialogue journals; books on tape; tutor as a model for oral reading; cloze procedure; graphic organizers; Know, Want to Know, Learned; and computers. Effective assessment methods are standardized and competency tests, checklists, and portfolios. Programs that show the diversity of adult literacy programs in the United States are intergenerational adult literacy projects; Project: Learn, a literature-based adult literacy program; Siskiyou County READ (Reading, Education, and Development) Project, a rural adult literacy effort; workplace literacy programs; Project Literacy United States; and volunteer efforts. (Nine organizational sources of information and 28 references are appended.) (YLB)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elementary education of adults
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Leaders in business and industry are demanding workers who not only can read and write but can think creatively and critically and solve problems. Federal- and state-funded programs and volunteer organizations are involved with adult literacy. Increasingly, corporations are funding adult literacy projects. Adults read for different reasons than they did when in school. Their reading relates to work-related tasks; they read to keep up with current events or for their own enjoyment. A first goal of an adult literacy program should be to enhance the self-esteem and self-concept of low-literate adults. Appropriate instructional strategies are the language experience approach; cooperative learning; dialogue journals; books on tape; tutor as a model for oral reading; cloze procedure; graphic organizers; Know, Want to Know, Learned; and computers. Effective assessment methods are standardized and competency tests, checklists, and portfolios. Programs that show the diversity of adult literacy programs in the United States are intergenerational adult literacy projects; Project: Learn, a literature-based adult literacy program; Siskiyou County READ (Reading, Education, and Development) Project, a rural adult literacy effort; workplace literacy programs; Project Literacy United States; and volunteer efforts. (Nine organizational sources of information and 28 references are appended.) (YLB)