Reading
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This interesting piece on Radio 4's Today Programme about the teaching of phonics. Although it concerns children's literacy development it does have far reaching implications for the levels of literacy in later life. What do you think these implications might be? Tom Sticht (see separate paper) talks about "life cycles in education" and how poor parent literacy impacts on children's. Are we on a downward spiral with respect to literacy/language skills? Also, do you think that as multilingual communities increase in number and in size that English isn't really the lingua franca for most users and that English isn't being used, therefore developed and aquired, at home? Discuss on the forum please.
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Effective teaching & learning: ReadingThis was the largest study in Britain to date of the strategies used to teach reading in adult literacy classes and the first attempt to correlate that evidence with measures of change in learners’ reading attainment and attitudes to literacy.
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Reading
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A balanced approach to readingThere have been, over the years, two general instructional approaches that have governed reading education. They have gone by many names, but today they are generally known as Phonics and Whole Language approaches.
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Reading for pleasure: ideas for ESOL
The Vital Link libraries and adult literacy programme, together with the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), have created this series of ideas packs for practitioners working with adults in a range of different settings.
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