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Breadmore, Helen L.; Vardy, Emma J.; Cunningham, Anna J.; Kwok, Rose K. W.; Carroll, Julia M. – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
Learning to be literate builds upon existing knowledge of the language from speech. Becoming literate then enables children to learn more about language. However, literacy is unlikely to be achieved without explicit and prolonged instruction. This review provides an evidence base for decision-making during literacy education. The authors identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Evidence Based Practice
McDermott, Shelley Mullen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Schools today are faced with a growing number of students who fail to acquire basic early literacy skills. To effectively meet the needs of all students, schools must utilize strategies and interventions that are both effective and efficient. One strategy that schools may use to meet the needs of all students is implementation of a multi-tiered…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Parent Education, Parents as Teachers
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Buchanan, Rachel; Holmes, Kathryn; Preston, Gregory; Shaw, Kylie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
In 2007 the Labor Government came to power with the promise to bring to Australia an "Education Revolution". More than four years later we are still waiting for the full impact of this series of policy initiatives. Among the various facets of the Education Revolution was the assurance that the Education Revolution would focus on the most…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Conflict, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
Thorn, William – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
Both within and beyond the OECD region, governments and other stakeholders are increasingly interested in the assessments of the skills of their adult populations in order to monitor how well prepared they are for the challenges of the knowledge based society. The current paper provides an overview of the two international assessments of adult…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Greater Cleveland Communications Skills Study Group, OH. – 1985
The literacy problem in the Cleveland area and recommendations for dealing with it are presented in this booklet. Beginning with a definition of literacy and a discussion of the human costs and economic consequences of illiteracy, the booklet advocates reducing adult illiteracy, eliminating basic skills deficits, and improving communications…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Illiteracy, Literacy, Literacy Education
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Graff, Harvey J. – History of Education Quarterly, 1986
Relates Victorian attitudes toward education by a forgotten 19th century liberal educator concerned with proper moral education. Concludes that uses and development of basic literacy are severely bound by individual and social contexts and that basic literacy does not, in itself, wield a magical transforming power for learning and life. (TRS)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays
Georgia Univ., Athens. Coll. of Education. – 1990
The essays contained in this document, which launches the University of Georgia Education Initiative, attempt to address Georgia's need for increased literacy in realistic and constructive terms. Taken together, these essays constitute an agenda for action--a challenge to all those who wish to provide Georgians with the quality education they…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Literacy Education
Irvin, Judith L.; Lunstrum, John P.; Lynch-Brown, Carol; Shepard, Mary Friend – 1995
This volume presents approaches and strategies for integrating literacy acquisition into social studies content and processes, for deepening student understanding of the social sciences, and for motivating students to read and write in the social studies class. The book is intended to be a teachers' reference tool for planning creative and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cultural Literacy, Elementary Education, Literacy
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Policy Information Center. – 1996
One of the problems common to efforts to set skill standards for various occupations is deciding on the facility needed for dealing with the printed word. A similar problem faces those trying to define "workplace literacy." This workbook brings together resources to make them available to those who are trying to deal with this education issue. The…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Functional Literacy
Belloncle, Guy – Ceres, 1980
Presents a discussion of the rethinking of the role of literacy in African nations. Emphasis is needed on measurement concepts for peasants. Cultural motivations are suggested as important considerations when planning literacy programs. (SA)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Computation, Developing Nations
Rogers, Alan – 1994
A research project examined the production of post-literacy materials through field visits to South Africa, India, Germany, and the Netherlands. In every country the many materials that could be used for the practice of literacy fell into two main groups: special materials (post-literacy and easy reading materials) and real materials (extension…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Colelli, Leonard M. – 1975
Twenty percent of adult Americans function only with difficulty with necessary every day literacy skills, almost two-thirds of the 800 million illiterate adults in the world are females, and the number of women who cannot read or write has risen steadily in the past 10 years. The inservice program described in this document involved a team of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Perkins, Helen – 1988
These four modules are designed to improve the basic vocabulary skills of students interested in the field of electronics and to introduce them to some basic vocabulary and information of basic electronics. The exercises, prepared for students reading below the eighth-grade level, provide strategies to help students learn the meaning of new words.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Electronics
Escoe, Adrienne S. – 1977
The Communication Experience Approach (CEA), a modification of the Language Experience Approach to teaching reading, involves the use of group activities designed to help functionally illiterate persons learn basic communication skills. This paper first discusses six distinct processes in the CEA: setting a specific purpose for communicating,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
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Vincent, David – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2003
The paper argues that the term "literacy" has become attached to too many disparate practices, and that renewed attention needs to be paid to how the acquisition and use of skills of written communication are conditioned by the core structures of the home, the classroom, and the state. It reviews the current usages of literacy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Basic Skills, Reading Instruction
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