EMERGING LITERACYA Niche Population?

WHAT IS EMERGING LITERACY?

Specifically designed class Focus on Literacy Multiple Goals

Academic Life Skills Self Improvement

WHO DOES IT SERVE?

“First level learners”

Beginning ABE Beginning Basic 0-3.9 on TABE or

CASAS Rejoin the

workforce/improve working conditions

DEFINING QUALIFYING CANDIDATES

CASAS/TABE

EFLs 0-1.9 & 2-3.9

DEFINING QUALIFYING CANDIDATES

AN EMERGING LITERACY STUDENT

18 years old

EFL 3.0 Wants GED Yes

AN EMERGING LITERACY STUDENT

25years old Has GED/Diploma

EFL 3.5 YesMust Show

Progress

THE DATA

National Data 51 Million adults Range 16.5 to

42.8 percent About 9 percent

have 4 years or less of schooling

THE DATA

National Estimate for low literacy of adults

14.5 percent BPLS

13.6 Below Basic

THE DATA

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

Levels 1 and 2: Beginning ABEBeginning Basic EFLs

THE DATA

Data by County Percent lacking

BPLS Including levels

1&2 increases percentages

NOW WHAT?

ClassOne to one instruction (tutoring)

Distance learning?Involve the LNCKnow your student

AN EMERGING LITERACY STUDENT REVISITED

It’s not that they don’t understandIt just takes a while to fill in all the

parts

IN THEIR SHOES

Activity See how many you can complete in 10 minutes

How did you do? It can be accomplished it just takes longer

THE RURAL CHALLENGE

Limited resources Time Staffing Showing progress

RESOURCES/REFERENCES

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&sr

cid=-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