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Kerr, Hugo – 1995
This book examines the basic principles of the cognitive psychology of literacy and explains how insights gained from that theory can inform and improve reading, spelling, and writing instruction aimed at adults. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's eight chapters: the principles of cognitive psychology (the nervous system,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Andragogy
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
Gunter, Jock – 1972
This document describes a literacy project in rural Ecuador using a modified version of Sylvia Ashton Warner's language experience approach. This method allows learners to approach written culture on their own terms by learning words important to their life, then transferring these works to sentences and stories. The approach reduces the rural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Daily Living Skills
Gunter, Jock – 1973
Letter and syllable dice devised for a project in rural Ecuador provide inexpensive, easily reproducible learning materials for practice in basic literary skills. Eleven wooden cubes with six letters on each cube are cast onto a surface and the player constructs words from the letters on the top side of the dice. After a word is formed and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Daily Living Skills
Rogow, Sally M. – 1997
This book is intended to help primary grade teachers teach children with disabilities or other special needs to learn to read and write together with their peers. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of literacy. The first chapter discusses emergent literacy and highlights strategies to help children find meaning and relevance in print…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Communication Disorders
Farstrup, Alan E., Ed.; Samuels, S. Jay, Ed. – 2002
Maintaining a balance among theory, research, and effective classroom practice without presenting a formulaic view of good instruction or overly theoretical discussions in which practical applications of research findings are not adequately explored, the 17 chapters in this book capture the best evidence-based thinking of experienced researchers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Constructivism (Learning), Content Area Reading, Early Intervention
Teale, William H., Ed.; Sulzby, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on the not-yet-conventional ways in which young children write and read--their nature, contexts, and significance for continuing literacy development, this book presents the perspective that children's early reading and writing behaviors are not pre- anything, but are integral parts of an incipient language process. Following an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Clay, Marie M. – 1982
The reports of research in this monograph reflect 18 years of observation of the behaviors of children learning to read in New Zealand schools. The first section of the monograph urges teachers to look more closely at language behaviors in their classrooms to see how children go about the tasks set before them. The second section reports on…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Montebello Unified School District, CA. – 1985
Noting that some elementary school children may have difficulty learning to read using basal readers, this paper describes the successful implementation of the Big Books for Beginning Readers reading program in a California elementary school. The first section of the paper discusses the problems students were having with reading, including a lack…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Books
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with the following topics: computer-assisted instruction; school characteristics and reading achievement; the process of reading acquisition; on-task behavior, teacher involvement, and reading achievement; the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Objectives

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effect of music programs on reading ability; a coordinated laboratory-classroom approach to the teaching of reading; teachers' attitudes toward the language…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Discrimination, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading
Vacco, Ellen; Jablon, Paula – 2003
This document consists of a teacher's resource guide, student book, and an accompanying audio component intended to help beginning-level adult English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners gain the general language skills and cultural understanding they need to function successfully in the U.S. workplace. The lessons address the following commonly…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Objectives
Irvine, Cindy – 1999
This document is an annotated bibliography of print and World Wide Web-based health materials available in North America for use with adults whose literacy skills are limited. The section on materials presents entries describing the following materials: 17 publications providing background information about the links between health status and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies
Nonesuch, Kate, Ed. – 1996
This book is designed for instructors and tutors working with female learners in literacy and English-as-an-additional language (EAL). It consists of a series of papers that explore some of the links among feminism, literacy, violence, and a women-centered curriculum while simultaneously presenting suggested activities, readings, and discussions…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques
Lane, Martha A.; And Others – 1991
The books in this work force literacy guide are listed alphabetically by title in each of two sections. The author, publisher, copyright date, reading level, type of book, number of pages, International Standard Book Number, price, and annotation comprise each entry. "Basic Books for Adult New Readers" contains 14 listings: "Building Success in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Business English