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Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy (PDF 1.1 MB)

This is an introductory guide to the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. The guide’s main aim is to outline the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy for tertiary educators. It’s an essential starting point for anyone interested in knowing more about the Learning Progressions and how to embed literacy into their teaching practice.

Teaching Adults to Read with Understanding – Using the Learning Progressions

Teaching Adults to Read with Understanding – Using the Learning Progressions (PDF 1.5 MB)

This guide introduces and explains the Read with Understanding strand of the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. A practical how-to guide, it covers topics such as assessment and how to use the resource, and has a range of guided teaching and learning activities to use in class.

The guide is part of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of literacy, language and numeracy for adult learners. It is based on research into effective adult literacy education.

The goal is to enable tutors to meet the learning needs of adult learners so those learners can engage effectively with the texts, tasks and practices they encounter in their training and learning.

The suggestions in this guide are initial ideas only – they are aimed at helping tutors apply the Learning Progressions to existing course and learning materials. 

Tutors should use, adapt and extend the ideas in this guide to meet the needs of learners and their own teaching situations.

You’ll find an overview of the guided teaching and learning activities on page 27 of the guide.

Learning Progressions strand chart – Read with Understanding 

Strand chart – Read with Understanding (PDF 80 KB)

This printable chart for educators shows the steps in the Read with Understanding strand of the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy.

Learner Profiles – Read with Understanding

Learner Profiles – Read with Understanding (PDF 845 KB)

These Learner Profiles describe what adult learners can do at each step of the Read with Understanding strand of the Learning Progressions. They include a broad set of examples for each step. They also offer a comparison between realistic expectations of learners at each step and course demands.

Keep in mind, individual learners will have differing gaps in their knowledge and strategies. Learners may have strengths in particular areas that are higher than the step they are on.

Learner Profiles – Read with Understanding – strengths and areas for development 

Read with Understanding – strengths and areas for development (PDF 591 KB)

A supplement to the Learner Profiles above, this describes the strengths and development areas a learner might have at each step in the Read with Understanding strand of the Learning Progressions.

Reading Collections – reader series for adult literacy

Reading Collections

The Reading Collections are part of a suite of linked materials to support adult literacy learning, including books for learners and audio versions of the books. They contain a range of reading material, in New Zealand contexts and settings.

Digital read-along stories for adult ESOL learners and beginning readers

Digital read-along stories

This resource collection includes short stories for beginning English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners and learners who are beginning readers. Learners can read and listen to the stories.