National Adult Literacy Database

Support Materials and Exercises

Series: Curriculum Project - English

Authors: Leslie Childs, New Brunswick Community College

This is one of a series of support modules intended for the use of adults improving their literacy skills. Each module is matched to objectives and teaching points outlined in the Basic Academic Upgrading Curriculum Plan (English) (BAU-ENG) and the Intermediate Academic Upgrading – English Curriculum Plan (IAU-ENG), both New Brunswick Community College documents.

This support module may be used with BAU-ENG 6.6, Spelling, and IAU-ENG 2.2, Spelling Review 5.

Funders:

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• OLES

Added: 2005-10-21

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Series: The Next Step

Authors: New Brunswick Literacy Coordinators

The Next Step – Reading Skills for Adults series is part of a project intended to enhance New Brunswick adult upgrading curriculum and instructional materials. The focus of this series of six books is reading comprehension skills.

This is the first in the series; subsequent books build on and reinforce the information provided in this book. Chapters include instruction on the main idea, facts and details, sequencing, context clues, inferences, logical conclusions, facts vs. opinion, vocabulary development (homonyms, context clues, phonics), reading literature (such as poetry, short stories, myths and legends), and journalism (newspapers).

Added: 2005-02-22

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Series: The Next Step

Authors: New Brunswick Literacy Coordinators

The Next Step – Reading Skills for Adults series is part of a project intended to enhance New Brunswick adult upgrading curriculum and instructional materials. The focus of this series of six books is reading comprehension skills.

This is the third in the series; this book builds on and reinforces the information provided in the first two books, 14014 and 14015. Chapters in this book include instruction on the main idea, facts and details, sequencing, context clues, inferences, logical conclusions, facts vs. opinion, vocabulary development (homonyms and idioms), figures of speech and literacy devices (such as anecdote, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole), reading literature (such as poetry, short stories, myths and legends), and journalism (newspapers and magazines).

Added: 2005-02-22

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