Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h8HA3ET15389; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <sf67f81a.043@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2685] Appropriate books? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.4 Beta Status: O Content-Length: 1749 Lines: 17 Two questions have come up in my research project and I am curious about what people think about these issues. To remind everyone, I received a grant to study different instructional approaches to teaching reading to adults reading at the 3-5th grade levels. One of the approaches involves exposure to literature. In this approach, students read silently books that are of high interest (we hope) and low vocabulary. They also follow along as the teacher reads out loud a novel written for adult expert readers that our students could not have read on their own. Here are three issues that have come up regarding the selection of the read aloud books: 1. The teachers select read aloud books that do not have explicit incest descriptions. We do this because we do not have time, nor the expertise to deal with issues that get raised for many of us when descriptions such as these are read aloud. Do you agree with this? 2. We do not follow the abovementioned policy when it comes to descriptions of domestic violence between two adult partners. Should we? 3. In our research project, an adult is anyone 16 and older. Therefore in any given class, as is common in many adult literacy classes, we can have students who are 16 sitting next to students who are 54. This challenges the teacher to find a book that will interest all the age groups in the class. Do you think that we have to be careful about sexual content in classes where we have 16, 17, 18 year olds? Any thoughts on any of the above will be much appreciated! Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy MSC 6A0360 Georgia State University 33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6 Atlanta, GA 30303-3086 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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