Reading Instructions/Research

The Adult Reading Component Study
On this website, 569 ABE learners from the ARCS are grouped into 11 profiles. You will learn more about profiles as you navigate the site via two tracks.

Comprehensive Reading and Strategies
This is a free online course that provides information and resources that will help you help your students be better readers..

Internet Picture Dictionary
This online picture dictionary can be used with students to teach vocabulary. Activities include flashcards, fill in the blank, word scrambles and spelling recall.

Learning Resources
The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories.

Literacy Connections
Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy.

Read TV News
Read TV News is a Cyber product developed to provide adults with a tool to improve reading and other basic skills.

The Study Place
This interactive site helps to build lesson plans as well as give you access to ready made lesson plans.

TV 411
TV411 can help to improve reading/writing skills. Includes topics such as parenting, health and money.

We All Can Read
We All Can Read was developed for adults with very low reading skills. This site offers the first 28 lessons of the We All Can Read online program free.

Adult Basic Education ñ Strategies for Supporting Learning
This is a pdf document written by Judith Alamprese. It discusses the Adult Basic Education system in the U.S.

Adapting Instruction: A Potpourri of Strategies for Teaching Reading
Learning Disabilities (LD) Adaptations/Accommodations Guide
The lists contained in this article will help to choose a strategy that is appropriate to an individual learners' specific and unique characteristics.

Journal Writing as a Tool to Enhance Adult Literacy Processes
Vinitha Joyappa
This article chronicles the experience of an adult literacy tutor that uses journal writing as a tool.

Linking Content Area Reading to Adult Literacy and Basic Education
Kathryn L. Chang
The concept of content area reading (CAR) is introduced and implications are drawn for the teaching of reading in adult literacy and basic education programs.

To Read or Not to Read
National Endowment for the Arts
This study shows startling decline in how well and how much Americans are Reading.

TESL-EJ: The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language
TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has grown to become an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries.

CNN New Reader Story of the Week
This site offers a story of the week that is written for new readers.

Reading Profiles
On this website, five components are presented to identify different patterns of reading strengths and weaknesses: word recognition, spelling, word meaning, silent reading comprehension and oral reading rate.

TV 411: Reading
This interactive lesson helps to teach the fundamentals of reading the newspaper. Students will learn how to find information in a newspaper as well as figure out the main idea of articles.

Writing Assignments: Writing From Literature
Presents several activities to be carried out in conjunction with the study of a single assigned book, or to take the place of the traditional book report. Each topic can be modified to "fit" different pieces of literature or to accommodate students of greater or lesser sophistication.