Reading
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Get More out of Google Drive with Fluency Tutor for Google
If you use Google Docs/Drive with your adult learners, you'll want to try this free add-on application for fluency reading practice! Read More
New Evidence for Fluency Instruction
Learn about findings and conclusions from two studies on the relationships between fluency and comprehension in adult readers. This is important to ABE reading teachers because most fluency research has been based exclusively on children. Read More
Vocabulary Workouts
Check out this FREE curriculum to exercise your students’ knowledge and use of academic words! It's accessible in the Reading resource library on the ATLAS website. Read More
Get It Right Off the BATT!
Introducing Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT), a new ATLAS resource for testing and teaching the CCRS Reading Foundational Skills (K-5)! Read More
LearningExpress Library for ABE
LearningExpress Library contains nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books. It covers job search and workplace skills improvement; skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science; and prep for career certification, licensure exams, college and grad school entrance tests, GED, and more. Read More
Introducing Teaching Analogy Phonics!
This free alphabetics resource provides ABE/ESL reading teachers/tutors with convincing background information and testimonials, a lesson plan model and template, other reinforcement ideas, and over 100 common or sequential phonogram and word family lists for immediate analogy phonics instruction. Read More
New Evidence about Persistence
A summary of the findings from two studies on persistence and motivation in adult literacy programs. Reading skill development requires thousands of hours of instruction and practice; therefore, it takes persistence and motivation for adult readers to regularly attend reading classes and make educational level gains. Read More
Free Curriculum Materials for Adult Emergent Readers
The Elder Literacy Initiative’s innovative curriculum is a collection of activities for adult emergent readers that is all-inclusive and ready to use, including over 250 activities across 13 themes. Read More
Increase Comprehension Through Paraphrasing Activities
According to research, comprehension and retention of material increase in proportion to the quality and quantity of oral paraphrased statements. What do the components of explicit oral paraphrasing instruction include? Read More
FREE Online Sources of Leveled, Non-Fiction Text!
Both GED 2014® and CCRS recommend using mostly non-fiction or expository text rather than fiction or narrative text for language, reading, and writing instruction. Fortunately, there are several websites offering a variety of free, leveled, non-fiction text appropriate for use with adult readers. Read More