1. How To Teach Reading To Adults
For Teachers and Tutors
Edward Fry, PH.D.

2. Where Do I start? Step ONE Determine the student’s Reading Ability
Oral Reading Test
Silent Comprehension Test
TABE Results

3. Oral Reading Test Make photo copies of pages 108 – 113
Ask the student to read from the Student copy
You will mark the examiner copy
Count one mistake for each word the student is unable to pronounce.
Underline each word the student can’t pronounce or needs help.

4. ORAL TEST
Count the mistakes and record. (Independent, Instructional, or Frustration)
First find the Independent level, move to Instruction level and then find the frustration level. Then stop.
Record the results
Use this same form to retest using a different color to mark results

5. Silent Reading Comprehension Test
Make copies of pages
Two levels 3rd and 7th
Read the directions to your students
First five questions are literal/second five are inferential
Score test page 115

6. TABE Results
TABE will give reading skills based on National Standards using GE or scale scores
They have both skill and sub-skill components
Remediation is provided
SAMS allows practice for each skill level and full practice Survey test

7. Selecting the Right Reading Materials
Readability Chart page 13 syllables/sentences
Interest inventory – What do they read now? What would they like to read?
Life skills, Job skills, educational pursuits, parenting skills, high interest reading, fiction and non fiction
Page 18 Real Life Reading Materials

8. Read Aloud and Silently
Start with reading to your students
Have students read silently
Start encouraging oral reading by
Choral Reading
Reading to a peer
Quietly tell the student the word and let them read on
Having variety of materials to read 28/29

9. Comprehension-Do Not READ
Before Reading
Look over the story. Read the title and subtitles
Look at the illustrations predict what they think the story is about
Ask the students what they know about the topic
Integrate experience with the purpose for reading

10. Comprehension During Reading Be Investigators Ask the 5 W’s
Who, What, When, Where, Why
Ask to recall detail questions
Ask Inference questions “What do you think the author wants us to think?
Pages 30 and 31 great examples

11. Vary ways for Comprehension Response
Use extended answers, short answer, Multiple choice, Cloze Procedure, Student generated Questions, Retelling the story
Pages 34-35
Make sure you talk about common Idiomatic Expressions pages 37-38
Use Graphic Organizers for review

12. Vocabulary Building Basic sight words – five at a time
Should be able to read the first 300 instantly because they make up 65% of all written words
Take Instant word test page 56-57
Instant words on pages 50-55
Index cards are great for practice
Easy Reading Practice is important – 1 or 2 years below actual level
Games – word bingo, concentration, Picture Nouns
Collect new words notebook
Important words pages

13. New Words Learn prefix, suffix, Latin and Greek root words pages 60-64
Teach students to:
Pay attention to new words
Try to learn its meaning from context
Look it up in the dictionary
Learn a new word each day
Use Prefix, suffix, roots to expand vocabulary
Use new words often

14. Teaching Phonics Teach Phonics rules in logical order Pages 74-82
Phoneme awareness – English uses 44 sounds to form words
Phonics Charts pages 74-82
Phonic Survey pages 72-73
Phonograms – word families 83-88
Keep the PHUN in Phonics

15. Language Experience Approach
Motivate a student to write a story
Read it
Discuss it, extend it, correct it, and read again
Pages Good story starters
Learn parts of speech, use color to categorize, introduce prepositional phrases

16. Listening is Good for Your Students
It improves their vocabulary
Improves their grammar
It broadens their horizons
It allows them to work on material harder than they currently can read and this expands their choice of materials.
If you do nothing else in this book. The least you can do is read to your students

17. Among the Best
Use reading materials from other content areas- SS and Science
Write every day
Write summaries of what you read
Set aside regular reading times and teachers should set the example
Use graphic organizers
Encourage students to use a typewriters or computers cont on page 102
Look at sample lessons pages

18. Summary Read Aloud to Students Build sight words Teach phonics
Teach How words are made
Teach How Sentences are made
Teach How stories are built
Use variety and have fun