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Bibliography
for Adult Educators Download
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This bibliography lists many useful resources for adult educators
and those interested in establishing family literacy programs.
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Helping Your Child
Become A Reader
To order via email: edpubs@inet.ed.gov
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Spanish
version
These resources from the U.S. Dept of Education, available in English
and Spanish, are useful when working with parents of ELL students,
or could be used as primers for teaching and reinforcing adult literacy
skills.
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Parent Literacy
Survey
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PDF 1.02 MB
If you are developing a family literacy program, this survey provides
a useful starting point to determine what kinds of literacy activities
families currently engage in within their home environments.
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Just For Parents:
A Guide To Kansas Curricular Standards
These
documents, from the Kansas State Department of Education, available
in English and Spanish, explain in understandable language what core
curriculum and standards Kansas students are responsible for learning
at various grade levels. http://www.ksde.org/topics/just_for_parents.html
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Revised
ABC Book of Education Terms:
A Plain Language Guide for Parents
So much of the language of schooling and education
consists of jargon and terms that are inaccessible to parents and
the general public. This (# of pages) booklet developed by the Kansas
Parent Information Resource Center contains more than (# ) of commonly
used terms in education and defines them in easy to understand language
for parents.
Additional Special
Education terms have been added as well as a math glossary at the
end of the booklet that contains # of commonly used terms in mathematics.
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Parents Rights
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1.81 MB
This
bilingual document, developed by Region VII Comprehensive Center at
the University of Oklahoma is a useful document to teach parents of
ELL about general parent rights as well as how school systems in the
United States are structured and run. It includes pre-assessment that
you can give to parents to determine their understanding of general
parent rights. The handout Parents Rights Answer Sheet
below includes the answers to pre-assessment in this document.
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Parents Rights
Answer Sheet
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Help! They Don't
Speak English Starter Kit for Primary Teachers
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14.3 MB
A resource guide for educators of limited English proficient students,
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The Help! Kit:
A Resource Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language
Learners
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14.3 MB
This secondary version of the Help! Kit is a comprehensive resource
guide that provides helpful information to busy teachers who are seeking
practical, research-based advice on how they can more effectively
teach, evaluate, and nurture their limited English proficient (LEP)
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Research-Based
Principals For Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction
This book represents the work of the Reading Research
Working Group, a panel of experts on reading research and practice
convened by the Institute and the national Center for the Study of
Adult Learning and Literacy to identify and evaluate existing research
in adult literacy reading instruction and provide a summary of scientifically
based principles and practices. This publication is the best information
available about how adults learn to read and is designed for educators
and policy makers who make decisions about the content of adult basic
education reading instruction.
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