Adult Learners Welcome Here: A Handbook for Librarians and Literacy Teachers - Softcover

Marguerite Crowley Weibel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555705782 ISBN 13: 9781555705787

Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub, 2007

Synopsis

Adult Learners Welcome Here! is designed to help librarians connect new adult readers with books and to acquaint literacy teachers with materials generally available in their public library. Weibel outlines the library s role in fostering adult literacy and shows how popular library materials art and photography books, poetry, literature, non-fiction, and print and electronic reference sources can be used by librarians and teachers in new and innovative ways. She provides recommended titles (complete with bibliographic information, annotations, subject headings, and reading levels) and ready-to-use lessons that improve visual literacy, creativity, and even technological competency while building phonetic skills and comprehension. The recommendations and lessons can be used with all levels of adult learners and both native and non-native English speakers. There is guidance for improving instruction to adults and building literacy coalitions between libraries and other community organizations. This unique and comprehensive resource will help libraries improve their own services and support the important work of educators in their community.

About this title

From Booklist:

As public libraries continue to address adult literacy issues, this volume provides practical, tested strategies. The first three chapters explain the role of the public library as a literacy classroom and an important part of the community's effort to respond to literacy issues. Five chapters of lessons and annotated bibliographies follow, each focusing on a unique subject and format. The first uses art and photography as a bridge to reading, the second uses poetry to address the visceral experience of reading, the third explores the human condition through fiction, the fourth focuses on using nonfiction to pursue personal interests and needs, and the fifth details information literacy through reference tools. The accompanying bibliographies rate the reading level of each resource as a help in advising adult emerging readers. The last chapter serves as a coda for coalition building. Two appendixes provide notes and further reading. This accessible book should be a welcome addition for public libraries considering adult literacy programs. Farmer, Lesley

Review:

Excellent source of information for both public librarians and the literacy teachers that they or their library systems have on staff...Can fit in both the training and general collections of a public library...Very clear and straightforward. --Colorado Association of Libraries, August 2007

A thoughtful guide for librarians and teachers across America to combating the current literacy crisis. --The Midwest Book Review, September 2007

This accessible book should be a welcome addition for public libraries considering adult literacy programs. --Booklist, September 1, 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1555705782
• ISBN 13: 9781555705787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300