Friday, December 5, 2008

Literacy Lagniappe Tip #2: Marshall Adult Education - Leveled Reading Selections

Hello Everyone,

Today I am posting some information about another website that provides leveled reading selections that may be used with your adult learners. The name of the website is the Marshall Adult Education Website - http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/. There is a project called Reading Skills for Today's Adults on their home page. This project was designed to create leveled reading selections appropriate for and valued by adult learners. The reading selections help build fluency and comprehension skills through repeated reading and guided oral reading.

These leveled stories are organized into two groups. Group 1 has stories from levels 0.7 to 4.5 grade equivalent (GE). Group 2 has reading selections from levels 5.0 to 8.0 GE. The topics include civics, employment, housing, health, school, money and government. The stories can be read online or you can print the reading selections. After each story, comprehension questions are also provided. There are additional resources such as: frequently asked questions, timing oral readings, helpful hints, reading charts and answer keys to questions.

Please check out this website and the leveled reading selections. We will be using some of the reading selections during the training being held Friday, December 12th.

Happy reading!
Hazel

1 comment:

Caroline said...

I used some of the readings during a training and they were very helpful!