Creating a Literate Nation by Leveraging the Power of the Family

Adult Education

adult-education

Introducing Comprehension Strategies to Adult Readers

A set of free videos on our website introduce two research-based reading comprehension strategies to adult learners—coding text and question-answer relationship (QAR). Each video is about two minutes long.  The videos present some strategies that you can use with your learners who need to improve their reading comprehension.

NCFL receives grant from MetLife Foundation

[flickr]photo:3074523470[/flickr]NCFL is excited to announce a new opportunity to explore, enrich and create partnerships between family literacy efforts and community colleges. The goal of this new project, made possible by MetLife Foundation, is to help provide a smooth transition for students from literacy programs to higher education.

Literacy Voices Roundup- November 7

Grading with Games: An Interview with James Paul Gee

An interview with James Paul Gee about video games in the learning process from Edutopia.org. Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidental Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. Want to see him in person? At our 2009 Conference, Dr.