Wendell on Guided Reading with Adult Learners

Interesting to read stories from an adult literacy worker in Canada. Wendell Dryden is “a poet, painter, literacy worker .. writing in Saint John, New Brunswick.” He’s written a few times now about using the Page Turners easy reader series in his adult literacy classroom.

Just now he’s posted an interesting piece about “guided reading” .. or finding the right book for the adult learner at the right time. A good overview of which texts he uses for each level, eg:

• Grass Roots (canada) and Page Turners for the real beginners, then
• Macmillan and Heinemann readers for people,
• Janet Dailey romance and New Readers press,
• Grass Roots press biographies,
• Saddleback classics .. and then
• people might be ready for actual books – that haven’t been especially re-written for learners.

Interesting because at PRACE, there’s a few teachers who’ve put considerable effort into maintaining a student library (box of books); and who would have a similar knowledge about which books for which learners.

Wendell writes a few posts about Page Turners:

• Guided reading with adult literacy learners
• Reading is not a card game
• More Page Turners
• The Beach

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