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Emerging literacy

A Niche Population?. Emerging literacy. Specifically designed class Focus on Literacy Multiple Goals Academic Life Skills Self Improvement. What is emerging literacy?. “First level learners” Beginning ABE Beginning Basic 0-3.9 on TABE or CASAS

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Emerging literacy

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  1. A Niche Population? Emerging literacy

  2. Specifically designed class • Focus on Literacy • Multiple Goals • Academic • Life Skills • Self Improvement What is emerging literacy?

  3. “First level learners” Beginning ABE Beginning Basic 0-3.9 on TABE or CASAS Rejoin the workforce/improve working conditions Who Does it Serve?

  4. Defining Qualifying candidates • CASAS/TABE • EFLs 0-1.9 & 2-3.9

  5. Defining Qualifying Candidates

  6. An emerging literacy student • 18 years old • EFL 3.0 • Wants GED • Yes

  7. An emerging Literacy Student • 25years old • Has GED/Diploma • EFL 3.5 • Yes Must Show Progress

  8. The data • National Data • 51 Million adults • Range 16.5 to 42.8 percent • About 9 percent have 4 years or less of schooling

  9. The data • National Estimate for low literacy of adults • 14.5 percent BPLS • 13.6 Below Basic

  10. Basic Prose Literacy Skills “the literacy of adults who lack BPLS ranges from being unable to read and understand any written information to being able only to locate easily identifiable information in short, commonplace prose text in English…” ( NCES.2007) The Data

  11. The data Levels 1 and 2: Beginning ABE Beginning Basic EFLs

  12. The Data • Data by County • Percent lacking BPLS • Including levels 1&2 increases percentages

  13. Class One to one instruction (tutoring) Distance learning? Involve the LNC Know your student Now What?

  14. An emerging literacy student revisited It’s not that they don’t understand It just takes a while to fill in all the parts

  15. Activity See how many you can complete in 10 minutes How did you do? It can be accomplished it just takes longer In their shoes

  16. Limited resources Time Staffing Showing progress The Rural Challenge

  17. http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp#3 http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeadult/TargetPop.htm http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009481.pdf http://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/Index.aspx http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeadult/download/Policy/Assessment/ColoradoApprovedAssessmentPolicyFY10final2OVAE.pdf http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=191&srcid=-2 Mellard, D., Fall, E.,& Mark, C. (2008). Reading profiles for adults with low-literacy: Cluster analysis with power and speed measures. Springer Science+Business Media. Miller, B., Mc Cardel, P.,& Hernandez, R. (2008). Advances and Remaining Challenges in Adult literacy research. http://journaloflearningdisabilities.sagepub.com Vogel, S.,(1998). How many adults really have learning disabilities? http://ldonline.org/article/6014?theme=print Resources/References

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