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Peer reviewedBecker, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Illiteracy, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Presents a last resort technique for teaching reading to adolescent and adult illiterates. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults
Peer reviewedMcWilliams, Lana; Smith, Dennie L. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes a version of language experience with adolescents that has students write about personal problems and dilemmas they have faced. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1987
This guide is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors who are teaching adults and teenagers to read. The nature and extent of the adult illiteracy problem and the process of learning to read are discussed in the first chapter. The characteristics that are desirable in basic reading tutors and those that are encountered in adult learners…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
