How to Teach Adult Literacy
If adults have not been able to read for the majority of their lives or have low reading skills, it may be difficult to show them how to better their lives by learning to read now. Teaching literacy to adults can be more harrowing than teaching children to read, because adults come with a lifetime of baggage, a full schedule and a deep-set embarrassment for their lack of reading skills. The process to teach adults literacy differs markedly from that of teaching children.
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Instructions
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Starting with Your Class
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Introduce yourself to your students. Tell them something about yourself and gain their trust by showing that you are kind, open to new ideas and well aware of the difficulties reading might present.
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Assess the reading level of each of your students. Do this through individual tests or one-on-one reading sessions. Do not force students to share information about their skills with the entire class.
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Divide the class into ability levels. Put those with no reading ability in one group, those with a knowledge of the basics but no reading skills in a second group, and those with some reading ability at a low level in a third group.
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Divide your class period into four sections, depending on the amount of time you have for each class period.
Working wiith Groups
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Spend one-fourth of the class time working with the group of students with no reading skills. Introduce them to the alphabet and begin to work with the sounds that each letter makes. Progress to lessons about putting sounds together to form easy words.
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Spend the next quarter of your class time working with the group of students with low levels of skills. Start with an overview of how to put sounds and letters together to form words. Move on to reading simple sentences and start with early reader books designed for adults.
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Spend the next fourth of your time working with the highest level of your class. Assign individual reading assignments based on students' reading levels. Read together and talk about comprehension.
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Spend the final fourth of your time working with the entire class. Talk about the stigma of being nonliterate. Do reading exercises as a class on the board and out loud. Read to your students daily.
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Tips & Warnings
Design activities for each group to do while you work with other groups. These should be independent reading and writing activities.
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Comments
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my partner is helping a friend and it is a beautiful thing to do.
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jithujain
Nov 12, 2010
Learn in pints to save time : Tell them something about yourself and gain their trust. Divide the class into ability levels.Do this through individual tests or one-on-one reading sessions. Divide your class period into four sections Divide and spend some time with each and every group and give them exercises to learn using fun and activities. Be practical and give live examples. Adults love reasons.
