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Developing Lifetime Readers. A Report on the 1991 "Year of the Lifetime Reader" Promotion Campaign of the Library of Congress.

Thompson, Michael, Comp.; Cole, John Y., Ed. – 1993

This report describes the "Year of the Lifetime Reader" campaign, which focused on family literacy. The report has a threefold purpose: to review the events, projects, and activities that took place across the country; to stimulate thinking on how to make future campaigns even more effective; and to make available the ideas that have…

Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy, Lifelong Learning

Roads to Reading.

Staiger, Ralph C. – 1979

This book is a collection of ideas that have been used in many countries for the encouragement of reading. Its purposes are to provide information about reading and the reading habit; to put forward examples of local, national, and international reading promotion activities selected as useful, representative of different approaches, and adaptable…

Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education

Reading and Study Skills and Instruction: College and Adult. Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1982 (Vol. 43 Nos. 1 through 6).

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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of selected short stories on reading achievement, attitude, habits, and interests of college students enrolled in compensatory reading classes; (2) journal-published…

Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Compensatory Education

Reading and Study Skills and Instruction: College and Adult: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1979 (Vol. 40 Nos. 1 through 6).

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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: passage integrity and type of instruction in prose learning; college student self-concept and reading gain in two instructional methods; the consequences for adults of childhood…

Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students