Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i5ADE9914134; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <8.4f42d5b5.2df9b7ce@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2770] Reading Instruction for Adults X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5026 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 35 Colleagues, News from the state of Virginia. The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center coordinated and supported the Virginia Reading Project, in which six teachers and programs piloted an initiative to improve reading instruction in Adult Education programs. Dr. Yvonne Thayer, Director of the Office of Adult Education and Literacy in the Virginia DOE, initiated the project. The small group of teachers was trained in research-based instructional strategies for teaching reading, based on the Equipped for the Future Reading Project. Susan Holt writes that "According to an article in the Journal for Adolescent and Adult Literacy (Bell, Ziegler, & McCallum, 2004), the National Reading Report (2000) found that even though many adult educators have a K-12 teaching background, they may have received very little instruction in the mechanics of reading. There is a continuing mismatch between what teachers know and what research supports as effective reading instruction." The Virginia Reading Project training module focuses on the four key areas of reading instruction: Alphabetics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. Similar Training and Technical Assistance is available to every state, delivered by the EFF Nationally Certified Facilitators. For more information please contact Diane Gardner at the Center for Literacy Studies. Her e-mail address is dgardner@utk.edu. All the Best, Meta Potts, Moderator 4-EFF Glen Allen, VA mwpotts2001@aol.com
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