Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

by Sam Duncan

Book Overview

Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and distinctly 'adult' ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred years, adults have formed themselves into reading circles to read and discuss novels on a weekly or monthly basis. Why then are reading circles rarely used, or studied, in formal adult literacy provision? This book explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472530144
• ISBN13: 9781472530141
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"