Reading

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Reading

Inside this Issue

• Letter from John Comings, Director of  NCSALL
  The director of NCSALL outlines how a long-term research agenda for adult learning and literacy and for NCSALL will be developed and how you can get involved in the process.
  
  
• Learning to Love Reading
  Donna Earl
  Donna Earl describes a teacher research project in which she experimented with using reading journals/logs and incentives to get students to read outside of class.
  
  
• Author Biographies
  
  
• There's Reading . . . And Then There's Reading
  Victoria Purcell-Gates
  Victoria Purcell-Gates describes three different theories of reading and their implications for adult literacy instruction.
  
  
• Models of Reading and the ESOL Student
  David E. Eskey
  David Eskey discusses the different reading models, how they need to be adapted for the ESOL student and how these models relate to the needs of the ESOL student.  He also presents their limitations.
  
  
• Rediscovering Themselves: Learning to Read for Survival
  Melissa Nieves
  Melissa Nieves shares her development as an ESOL teacher, and how she and colleagues at the University Settlement Society in New York City created a three-phase program that draws upon learners' personal histories as topics and texts for ESOL literacy instruction.
  
  
• Editorial Board
  A list of those who served on the Focus on Basics: Issue B Editorial Board and the themes of upcoming issues.
  
  
• What Silent Reading Tests Alone Can't Tell You
  John Strucker
  John Strucker reports on his research on how silent reading tests alone can lead to misleading assessments of students' strengths and needs. He discusses the "uneven" profiles of adult basic education students and the implication that has for instruction. He also presents an overview of reading diagnostic tests.
  
  
• The ESOL Adult and the Push Towards Meaning
  Judith Rance-Roney

  Judith Rance-Roney describes the characteristics of ESOL readers that differ from those of native readers, and suggests implications for instruction.

• Reversing Reading Failure in Young Adults
  Mary E. Curtis & Ann Marie Longo
  Mary E. Curtis and Ann Marie Longo describe a four-stage reading curriculum they developed at Boys Town. The curriculum draws upon Jeanne Challs' stages of reading for development. They also offer suggests on how to create an effective reading program.
  
  
• Reconceptualizing Roles: Mathematics and Reading
  Mary Jane Schmitt
  Mary Jane Schmitt writes about how she has changed as a mathematics teacher and how she sees the field changing. Mathematics is being taught as a mode of communication, which means that reading and mathematics teachers must work and learn together more closely.
  
  
• Blackboard
  A list of suggested readings.