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Download full textRush, R. Timothy – 1987
The average worker spends 2.5 hours per day in occupational reading or writing, yet most classrooms fail to teach the reading and writing competencies required in skilled and semi-skilled job contexts. Occupational reading requires use of external references and following of directions, with a heavy dependence on prior knowledge and on insight.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
PDF pending restorationBlumner, Ellen; And Others – 1994
This learning module was developed during a project to deliver workplace literacy instruction to individuals employed in the more than 50 businesses related to the activities of the Port of Baltimore. It contains a sample of individual lessons that the project instructors used in individualized tutorial sessions with students working on reading,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading
