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Burt, Lorna – 1994
This guide is intended for use in conducting a reading lab for a broad group of workers ranging from nonreaders to persons reading at a fifth-grade level. Presented first is a course overview that includes the following: information on the course's targeted population, student selection process, and demographics; strategies for adult remediation;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Writing, Beginning Reading, Learning Activities
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1982
This test is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors working with adult beginning readers in assessing students' reading needs when beginning a reading program and determining their progress after receiving reading instruction. The three-part pretest and three-part posttest each include sections to assess students' sight vocabularies and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
1999
This document contains the 11 publications constituting the first stage of the Voyager program, which is a four-stage program that utilizes contemporary content and instructional approaches to teach the reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills that adults need in today's world and to take adult learners from the beginning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading


