[NIFL-FAMILY:1500] Re: Clips and Cross Posts

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Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 10:35:28 EDT


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Michelle,
Here are some web sites with suggestions for working with books for Adult
New Readers.  

Books for Adult New Readers
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/staff/mweibel/picturehistory.newsletter.html

Looking More Closely at High-Interest, Low-Level Texts: Do They Support
Comprehension?
An article that talks about how to choose books well.
http://www.resourceroom.net/Sharestrats/idacomprehension2.htm

Cyndy Colletti
Literacy Program Manager
Illinois State Library Literacy Office
300 S. Second St.
Springfield, IL., 62704 
ccolletti@ilsos.net
217-524-3529

Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michelle Bowden [mailto:mbowden@nstc.library.ns.ca] 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:57 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1494] Re: Clips and Cross Posts
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am a Project Coordinator doing research in family literacy in Canada. The
>advisory group for the project would like to see some guidelines that would
>assist programs in evaluating books/materials that are used in the
programs.
>We want to utilize books that match the level of reading of the
participants
>and their interest.  As this varies from program to program (and student to
>student) we would simply like to provide practitioners with guidelines to
>use when reviewing their materials on a regular basis.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Yours,
>
>Michelle Bowden
>Project Coordinator
>Family Literacy Research for Nova Scotia
>A Joint Project of the Colchester-East Hants Regional
>Library and the Nova Scotia Department of Education, Adult Education
>Division 754 Prince Street, Truro, Nova Scotia, B2N 1G9
>Phone: 902.895.4183
>Fax:   902.895.7149
>E-mail:  mbowden@nstc.library.ns.ca
>
>
>
Michelle Bowden
Project Coordinator
Family Literacy Research for Nova Scotia
A Joint Project of the Colchester-East Hants Regional
Library and the Nova Scotia Department of Education, Adult Education
Division
754 Prince Street, Truro, Nova Scotia, B2N 1G9
Phone: 902.895.4183
Fax:   902.895.7149
E-mail:  mbowden@nstc.library.ns.ca



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