Reading Instruction/Research

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.

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.

What Science has Taught us about Instructional Goals in Reading for Adults
Presentation by Dr. Joe Torgeson of the Florida Center for Reading Research.

Applying Research in Reading Instruction First Steps for Teachers
This book seeks to build adult literacy instruction of scientifically based reading research and provides guidance on how to use it in the classroom

Teaching Adults to Read
This resource contains research-based principles distilled into a 20 page pamphlet.

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.

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