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Yin, Mary – TESL Talk, 1990
Describes practical materials that relate to places within the English-as-a-Second-Language learner's own community, such as the supermarket, local fast food restaurants, pharmacy, and library. Each literacy booklet contains approximately 35 pages of activities that can be used as classroom handouts. (LB)
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language), Functional Literacy, Instructional Materials
Overbeck, Carla – Lifelong Learning, 1984
Adult basic education and English as a second language teachers, as well as volunteer tutors, can help new refugees acquire functional English through the use of a survival kit. The Literacy Volunteers of America's guide to teaching conversational English recommends these items for a survival kit: a written copy of student's name, address, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Conversational Language Courses, Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language)
Download full textFlorida International Univ., Miami. Coll. of Education. – 1989
This curriculum guide, developed for the Family English Literacy Network Program, contains a competency-based lesson plans for four levels of instruction. The competencies in the curriculum represent the objectives of each lesson. The charts that are provided are arranged by broad category, lesson plan number, and sub-topic. The curriculum also…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedAuerbach, Elsa Roberts; Burgess, Denise – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Discusses the evaluation of "survival texts" for immigrants in terms of the accuracy of the texts' portrayal of immigrants' reality and the extent to which they shape reality. Examples show that frequently the materials' content and communicative structure do not reflect authentic interaction and that they emphasize subservient social roles. (SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Analysis, Daily Living Skills
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education.
Adults and youths who have not developed normal reading skills are experiencing difficulty in passing the written test required in the procurement of a driver's license. The document is a modified handbook, written to enable persons who are not able to comprehend the material included in the "Florida Driver's Handbook" to pass the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Daily Living Skills, Driver Education, Educational Media
PDF pending restorationSmith, Bradley C.; Fry, Ronald R. – 1978
This annotated list of 103 instructional materials for use in an independent living program focused on personal, social, and community adjustment of those with special needs is cross referenced using a subject index that lists skill areas within a fourteen-category system. Document descriptions are arranged alphabetically by author and include…
Descriptors: Clothing, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Resources
Ross, Linda – 1997
This workbook is intended for students at beginner and post-beginner levels of numeracy, especially those with limited literacy skills. It takes a thematic approach to numeracy learning with everyday topics like shopping, banking, transport, and sport. Number, space measurement, and graphic texts are covered in context, through sequential…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Daily Living Skills, Developed Nations
Leopold, Joan Y.; Anstine, Carolyn G.; Greene, Margaret P. – 1983
A project was undertaken to develop a realistic survival skills curriculum in language arts for adult basic education (ABE) students that could be used with predischarge residents in institutions for mentally ill individuals in Pennsylvania. After identifying 28 predischarge residents at the Harrisburg State Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives
