What We Can Do Now to Improve Literacy Services for Adult Learners
This is Part 2 of a three-part Forum titled "Improving Service to Adult Literacy Learners."
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Adult Literacy Facts
This fact sheet highlights the issue of adult skills in the United States, where 59 million adults read at or below the lowest levels.
Annual Statistical Report
The Annual Statistical Report compiles the results of the most recent annual survey into a concise and easy to interpret visual representation of key findings.
ALE Journal – Volume 7 Issue 2
This special issue of the journal includes Research, a Report from the Field, Forum, and Research Digest all about health literacy and adult education.
Using the Newspaper in Instruction
Using the Newspaper in Instruction is a series of videos that will show you how to use the newspaper to teach phonics and decoding skills, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, discussion and oral language skills, writing, spelling and grammar, and critical thinking…
Each One Can’t Just Teach One
This is Part 1 of a three-part Forum titled "Improving Service to Adult Literacy Learners."
Learning to Teach Reading
This article conveys one practitioner’s career-long journey related to teaching reading.
“You Don’t Know What I Went Through”: Adult Learners Healing Through Multimodal Play
This study utilizes elements of teaching inquiry, participatory action research, and qualitative methods, to investigate the outcomes of using multimodal play in a composition unit within an adult high school equivalency classroom.
Psychological Stress in Adult Learners with Low Literacy
This article addresses the effects psychological stress has on learning, then defines the constructs of stress, trauma, resilience, and psychological distress.
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