Adult literacy tutors are often faced with the challenge of finding interesting, effective teaching strategies for reading, writing, and vocabulary development. Editor Ola M. Brown has addressed that challenge with a resource that incorporates the latest research on how adults learn to read and write. Intended specifically for tutors who want to use proven teaching techniques but who have limited time and resources, "Tips at Your Fingertips" offers dozens of teaching ideas as well as useful information on curriculum development, instruction, and appropriate reading materials.
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Ola M. Brown is a Professor Emerita in Early Childhood and Reading Education at Valdosta State University and a Learning Facilitator for the Basic Education and Learning at Levi's Program at Levi Strauss and Company, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
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Assessing the Adult Beginning Reader
For literacy teachers and tutors to meet the challenge of helping adult learners become competent, avid readers, they must first understand these adults as readers. Many times formal or standardized testing is used to obtain information about reading ability; however, this method has been found to have limitations for instructional planning. Nancy D. Padak, Jane L. Davidson, and Gary M. Padak explain several alternative strategies for exploring beginning adult readers' perceptions about their reading and reading abilities in the article "Exploring Reading with Adult Beginning Readers" from the September 1990 issue of "Journal of Reading". This list briefly summarizes these alternatives to standardized testing to help determine strengths and weaknesses of students. Based on information collected during this ongoing process of assessment, you can make decisions about what type of instruction your adult students need.
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As a relative newcomer to the area of tutoring adult learners, I have found this guide to be extremely helpful. I volunteer at a rather small literacy center and have received very little guidance in terms of strategies that would best help our students. Tips at Your Fingertips was a revelation and I have already begun to implement some of the ideas. I have even suggested at tutor team meetings that the center purchase copies for the other tutors. Its "environmental" or real world learning approach fits with the philosophy of our particular organization so the strategies found in the book have certainly reinforced what we are attempting to do.
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