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Partridge, Susan – 1989
The following intergenerational literacy programs are described in this document: (1) a Boston University program that provides about 112 hours of training for work-study students who then work as tutors for adults; (2) a program that uses the paired reading technique to involve parents in the development of their children's reading in the United…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries
Weibel, Marguerite Crowley – 1992
This book promotes a library-based curriculum for teaching reading and suggests a wide variety of books to use with new readers. It provides an outline of basic skills that literacy students must master to become good readers. It also suggests numerous skill-building activities for teachers to develop using the words and ideas derived from…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Caldwell, Robert M. – 1979
Evaluation studies conducted in 1978 at three sites yielded encouraging results regarding the ability of the Basic Skills Learning System (BSLS) to achieve the goals of adult basic education and demonstrated that effective curriculum models utilizing well-designed instructional paradigms can offer high quality instruction in the basic skills when…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Patterson, Martha – 1989
Workplace literacy is literacy training provided in the workplace, incorporating basic skills training with job-related instructional materials. Early research efforts to define the literacy requirements of jobs began with two military projects, Operational REALISTIC and Project 100,000, in the late 1960s. Subsequent studies have focused on the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the development, implementation, and evaluation of a reading improvement program for business and industry; (2) how instruction in a college rapid reading course meets individual…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
Laubach Literacy International, Syracuse, NY. – 1989
This report contains 10 proclamations prepared by adult new readers at a national conference in September 1989. The proclamations are the result of the new readers' deliberations. They represent the viewpoints of adults who have known firsthand the hardships of illiteracy and the triumph of learning to read. Each proclamation consists of a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Citizenship Education
Miller, Mev – Feminist Collections, 1999
The contemporary women's movement, communicating largely through the written word, mistakenly ignored or failed to notice the following: (1) almost one quarter of American women (23%) had severely limited literacy skills; (2) for female heads of households, 75% of those with less than a high school diploma lived in poverty; (3) nearly 40% of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators
