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Teaching Low Level Readers
This links you to web
sites and articles which will help you to
teach low level readers.
Understanding
What Reading Is All About: Teaching Materials and Lessons for Adult Basic
Education Students: 13 lesson plans for low-level readers including
goal-setting guides. You can integrate these lessons into your existing
curriculum or use them as a mini-course for students.
Focus
on Basics - First Level Learners: Innovative ideas for
teaching reading to low level learners, including a lesson plan
incorporating the 5 basic components of reading.
The
ABE Reading Classroom: Tons of resources for teaching
reading including: on-line lessons, tutorials, worksheets, online reading
books and assessment tools. The web links are excellent - be sure to
click on Literacy Cyberspace Reading Lessons and Phonics Sound
Essentials.
Reading - Just the Basics: This web-based mini-course is for your own learning. Throughout the
course there are learning activities for you and your students, web links,
teaching techniques and other resources for teaching reading. Use the
arrows
in the upper right corner to move through the pages.
Assessment
Strategies and Reading Profiles: The site provides a mini-course on assessment and instruction of reading
components, as well as tests and word lists that practitioners can
download and links to research. Instructors can match their own learners'
reading profiles with learner profiles developed using Adult Reading
Component Study (ARCS) data and make instructional choices based on the
information.