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Download full textBaer, Elizabeth R. – Humanities, 1988
The "Let's Talk about It" program began in Vermont as a reading and discussion group based in local libraries and grew into a program in 30 states and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The program brought together a diverse audience of adults to read books on selected themes in literature.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Group Discussion, Library Extension, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1983
Three contributors discuss using advertising slogans in writing instruction, setting up a paperback book lending center in an industrial cafeteria, and the effect of reading supervisors' expertise on junior high school students' reading achievement. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Advertising, Learning Activities, Outreach Programs
Peer reviewedKozol, Jonathan – Journal of Experiential Education, 1982
Describes utilizing secondary students and college undergraduates of the United States to teach illiterate adults to read by returning their stories (oral history) to them in writing allowing literacy lessons on subjects known to the adult. (ERB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Experiential Learning
