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Teaching adults : a literacy resource book

Lipke, Terrie. (Added Author). ProLiteracy America. (Added Author).

Summary: This resource is "designed to provide tutors and teachers with knowledge and instructional tools to meet the diverse needs of learners. It pulls together many of the best instructional strategies that have been proven effective for helping adults improve their literacy skills. It includes background information on literacy as well as 80 specific activities that tutors can use with literacy learners." p. 8.

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ISBN: 9781564203434
Physical Description: 188 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Publisher: Syracuse NY : New Readers Press, 2013.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Adult literacy -- Adults as learners -- The starting point -- Choosing materials -- Using language experience -- Developing fluent reading -- Recognizing words: alphabetics, phonics, and word parts -- Building vocabulary -- Developing reading comprehension -- Writing for meaning -- Improving spelling -- Pulling it all together: lesson planning -- Evaluating progress -- Appendixes.

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Functional literacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Functional literacy -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs
Reading (Adult education)
English language -- Composition and exercises
Tutoring strategies
Adult basic education
Instructional strategies
Reading instruction

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction

(5)

This Book

(1)

Tutoring

(3)

ProLiteracy

(1)

2 Adult Literacy

(6)

What Is Literacy?

(1)

Adult Literacy in the United States

(2)

True Stories: Stories of New Readers

(4)

3 Adults as Learners

(10)

General Characteristics and Needs of Adult Learners

(2)

Characteristics of Adult New Readers

(1)

Special Needs

(2)

Learning Differences and Learning Disabilities

(6)

4 The Starting Point

(12)

Establishing Rapport and Building Trust

(1)

Initial Assessment

(6)

Activity 1 Background Information

(1)

Activity 2 Current Reading and Writing

(1)

Activity 3 Reading and Writing Needs

(1)

Activity 4 Abilities Needed

(1)

Activity 5 Feelings About the Assessment Process

(1)

Initial Assessment Form

(3)

Setting Goals

(1)

My Goals

(1)

Ongoing Assessment

(1)

5 Choosing Materials

(5)

Evaluating Materials

(1)

Using Readability Formulas

(1)

Activity 6 Using the Fry Readability Graph

(2)

6 Using Language Experience

(6)

Activity 7 Creating a Language Experience Story

(1)

Activity 8 Generating Story Ideas

(1)

Activity 9 Videos, Pictures, and Photos as Story Starters

(1)

Activity 10 Newspaper and Magazine Articles as Story Starters

(1)

Activity 11 Using LEA with Beginning Readers

(1)

Activity 12 Using LEA with Groups

(1)

Activity 13 Building Skills with LEA Stories

(2)

7 Developing Fluent Reading

(6)

Activity 14 Reading Aloud to the Learner

(1)

Activity 15 Duet Reading

(1)

Activity 16 Echo Reading

(1)

Activity 17 Alternate Reading

(1)

Activity 18 Phrasing with Pencil Tracking

(2)

8 Recognizing Words: Alphabetics, Phonics, and Word Parts

(24)

Activity 19 Sight Words

(1)

Activity 20 Phonics: Teaching Consonant Sounds

(1)

Activity 21 Phonics: Beginning, Middle, and End Sounds

(1)

Activity 22 Phonics: Same or Different?

(1)

Activity 23 Phonics: Bingo

(1)

Activity 24 Phonics: Start with the Vowel Sound

(1)

Activity 25 Phonics: Decoding with Consonants

(1)

Activity 26 Phonics: Teaching Syllables

(2)

Activity 27 Word Patterns

(1)

Activity 28 Word Patterns for Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners

(2)

Activity 29 Context: Just Say "Blank"

(1)

Activity 30 Context: Cloze Exercise

(1)

Activity 31 Context: Using Cloze with a Beginning Reader

(1)

Activity 32 Word Parts: Compound Words

(1)

Activity 33 Word Parts: Distinguishing Between Plural and Possessive Endings

(1)

Activity 34 Word Parts: Adding Endings to Words

(2)

Activity 35 Word Parts: Prefixes

(1)

Activity 36 Word Parts: Changing Root Words

(1)

Activity 37 Word Parts: Contractions

(1)

Applying New Skills to Meet Everyday Needs

(3)

Activity 38 From Here to There

(1)

Activity 39 Making a Grocery List

(1)

Activity 40 Building Bridges

(1)

9 Building Vocabulary

(5)

Activity 41 Building Vocabulary with Pictures, Symbols, and Graphics

(1)

Activity 42 Building Vocabulary with Word Capsules

(1)

Activity 43 Building Vocabulary with Synonyms

(1)

Activity 44 Building Vocabulary with Multiple Meanings

(1)

Activity 45 Building Vocabulary with Games

(2)

10 Developing Reading Comprehension

(17)

Understanding and Reacting: Avoiding Comprehension Roadblocks

(17)

Activity 46 Making Predictions

(1)

Activity 47 Before-During-After (Directed Reading)

(1)

Activity 48 Creating Independent Readers

(2)

Activity 49 Asking Questions

(1)

Activity 50 Tell Me What You've Read

(1)

Activity 51 Understanding Cause and Effect

(1)

Activity 52 Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions

(1)

Activity 53 Using a K-W-L Chart

(1)

Activity 54 Story Map

(2)

Activity 55 Reading Fiction: WWWWWH

100

(2)

Activity 56 Signal Words

102

(2)

11 Writing for Meaning

104

(31)

Activity 57 Letter Formation: Five Steps to Printing

105

(4)

Activity 58 Copying

109

(1)

Activity 59 Controlled Writing: Cloze Sentences

110

(1)

Activity 60 Controlled Writing: Filling Out Forms

111

(1)

Activity 61 Controlled Writing: Sentence Completion

112

(2)

Activity 62 Controlled Writing: Making Lists

114

(1)

Activity 63 Controlled Writing: Basic Organization

115

(1)

Activity 64 Writing Sentences

116

(1)

Activity 65 Grammar: Verb Tenses

116

(2)

Activity 66 Grammar: Parallel Sentence Structure

118

(1)

Activity 67 Grammar: Writing Compound Sentences

118

(1)

Activity 68 Building Paragraphs

119

(1)

Activity 69 Writing Instructions

120

(1)

Activity 70 Writing Memos

121

(2)

Activity 71 Free Writing: Journals

123

(2)

Activity 72 Free Writing: Dialogue Journals

125

(1)

Activity 73 Free Writing: A Five-Step Process

126

(3)

Activity 74 Free Writing: Generating Ideas

129

(1)

Activity 75 Free Writing: Mapping

130

(2)

Activity 76 Free Writing: Say It a Different Way

132

(1)

Activity 77 Keeping a Writing Folder

132

(3)

12 Improving Spelling

135

(5)

Activity 78 Spelling: Test/Correct/Study/Retest

136

(1)

Activity 79 Creating a Spelling Dictionary

137

(1)

Activity 80 A Multisensory Approach to Spelling

138

(2)

13 Pulling It All Together Lesson Planning

140

(6)

General Principles for Planning Lessons

140

(1)

The Planning Process

141

(1)

Sample Lesson Plans

142

(2)

The First Meeting

144

(2)

14 Evaluating Progress

146

(6)

Portfolios

146

(3)

Tutor Learning Logs

149

(2)

Student Learning Logs

151

(1)

Appendixes

152

A Sample Learner Goals

152

(4)

B Sample Criteria for Evaluating Materials

156

(3)

C 300 Most Frequently Used Words

159

(2)

D Social Sight Words

161

(1)

E How to Make Speech Sounds

162

(6)

F Common Phonics Elements and Principles in English

168

(9)

G Sample Word Patterns

177

(4)

H Compound Words

181

(2)

I Prefixes and Suffixes

183

(2)

J Academic Vocabulary

185

(1)

K Banking- and Work-Related Vocabulary

186

(1)

L Health-Related Vocabulary

187

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