|
|
|
|
NC Online Home
Virtual Library
Online
PD Info Exchange
|
-
Reading
Research Digest Series /
Assessment Strategies
/ Full Curriculum /
Student Activities
Web Learning Sites /
Worksheets / Online Reading Books/
Student
Information /
Instructor Information /
Research and Evaluation
/Noteworthy Practices
Additional Links
Research
Digest Series
To help learners improve their reading skills, adult
educators can draw on a research base in reading instruction
that has evolved over the past two decades. This
series of research digests, published by the California
Department of Education and produced by CALPRO, presents
emerging principles from that research base, which
encompasses research in adult literacy as well as applicable
research in the kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12)
arena. By integrating reading research with
practitioner wisdom, practitioners can make informed
instructional decisions. This is known as Evidence-Based
Reading Instruction (EBRI).
The California Department of Education Office of Adult
Education encourages practitioners to practice EBRI; this
includes using assessments to create profiles of learners’
reading skills and using explicit, systematic instruction in
each of four reading components—alphabetics, fluency,
vocabulary, and comprehension—to address learners’ needs. No
single component of reading, by itself, can produce a
proficient reader; all four components are crucial for
reading proficiency.
The following four digests provide an overview of the
research on each component area as well as suggested
teaching strategies. Taken together, they provide current
information on what the research reveals about reading
instruction.
Assessment Strategies
CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
Assessment
Strategies and Reading Profiles
This website is
based on the
ARCS, a study that assessed the reading of 955 adult
learners. Researchers tested participants
individually on eleven skills (components) that
contribute to reading ability. A list of scores for
each learner became that individual's reading profile,
illustrating his or her strengths and instructional
needs.
On this
website, 569 Adult Basic Education (ABE) learners from
the ARCS are grouped into 11 profiles. Each profile
group shows a distinctive pattern and/or level of
reading component skills. You will learn more about
profiles as you navigate the site via the two tracks
described below.
On the
"Match a Profile" track, you can enter scores for your
learner and be matched to one of the 11 ARCS-based
profiles. You will find suggestions for instruction as
well as information about the ARCS learners in this
group that may relate to your learner.
Although you
will find enough information on the "Match A Profile"
track to understand your learner's reading profile,
the "Mini-Course" offers an opportunity to learn more
about reading. You will find extensive information on
the major reading components and assessment as well as
sections containing references and downloadable
resources.
Full
Curriculum
Back to Top
Student Activities
Web
Learning Sites
Worksheets
Online Reading Books
Student Information
Back to Top
Instructor Information
Reading Instruction Materials Flowchart for Levels 4 - 8.9
Developed by Caldwell Community College
Reading Strategies
Research and
Evaluation
-
The projects within the
Adult Literacy Research Network are studying the
effectiveness of adult literacy interventions for
low-literate adults, including the role of decoding,
vocabulary, fluency and comprehension instruction and
explicitness of instruction--components that have been
shown to be essential in teaching reading to younger
students, but instructional methods for teaching them to
adults have not been thoroughly investigated. Learn more
about the
six funded research studies.
-
The
The Partnership for Reading offers information about
the effective teaching of reading for children,
adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from
quality research. This site provides information on the
research and principles about reading instruction.
-
The book Research-Based
Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction
![[downloadable files]](ed_gl_download.gif)
PDF (703 KB) by John Kruidenier represents the work of
the Reading Research Working Group, a panel of experts on
reading research and practice convened to identify and
evaluate existing research in adult literacy reading
instruction and provide a summary of scientifically based
principles and practices.
-
Adult Literacy Research Informing Practice: A Series of
Workshops was sponsored jointly by government and
private sector entities in 2002 for the purpose of
developing specific recommendations for a program of
research on adolescent literacy.
Back to Top
Noteworthy Practices
-
Two
Initiatives in Family Literacy involve the creation of
professional development opportunities and tools related
to reading skills development for use by family literacy
service providers.
-
The Partnership for Reading's Adult Reading Instruction
presents evidence-based practices for teaching reading to
adults in adult basic education and family literacy
programs.
-
The STudent Achievement in
Reading (STAR) Project is a partnership with six states to
translate and disseminate evidence-based reading practices
through a series of local pilot programs. Each state
selects several local pilot programs whose teachers and
administrators will receive intensive training on reading
strategies and on implementing a data-driven change model.
Please see the STAR newsletter
MS WORD (101K) for additional information.
-
The Adult
Reading Components Study (ARCS) was conducted by
researchers at the National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), who tested the reading
ability of 955 adult learners on eleven skills components
that contribute to reading ability and came up with a
profile of each learner's strengths and instructional
needs.
-
The National Center for Family
Literacy-sponsored
Family Partnership in Reading Project will create and
disseminate research-based professional development
strategies to enable staff in Head Start, Early Head
Start, Even Start and other programs providing family
literacy to support family literacy.
-
The
Knowledge Loom "spotlights" are organized collections
of resources on selected education topics. The collection
on adolescent literacy provides research-based literacy
strategies that benefit adolescents and other resources
are continually added.
Back to Top
Additional Links
- Among the seven topics chosen for
review by the What Works
Clearinghouse during its first year of operation was
Programs for Increasing Adult Literacy, one of our
nation's most pressing issues. The systematic review will
focus on programs that teach the literacy and language
skills that adults need to function effectively. The
review will include programs that serve adult nonnative
speakers of English and adults who are proficient in
spoken English but who lack basic literacy skills.
-
LiteracyLink's Workplace Essential Skills provides
online lessons and activities that cover four general
areas of workplace preparation: Employment Strategies,
Communicating at Work, Reading at Work, and Math at Work.
These sections are divided into units on specific topics,
with each unit presenting two kinds of
activities--Internet and video.
- The
ERIC (Educational
Resource Information Center) is a national information
system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's
Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to
education literature and resources.
- The
National Center for ESL
Literacy Education (NCLE) focuses on the language and
literacy education of adults and out-of-school youth who
are learning English, providing information on adult ESL
literacy education to educators, program directors,
researchers and policymakers interested in the education
of those whose native language is other than English.
Back to Top
|
|
