The Adult Reading Instruction area on this Website presents evidenced-based practices for teaching reading to adults in adult basic education and family literacy programs. These practices are divided into the categories listed in the menu on the left, beginning with Assessment Profiles and ending with Computer Technology. First-time users are encouraged to browse the Using the Adult Collection link above.

In addition to presenting suggestions for teaching reading to adults that derive from research with adult readers, suggestions are also presented from research with readers at the elementary and secondary level in order to augment and support the adult research. (Discussion of the use of K-12 research with adult readers.) However, these adult and non-adult findings are not mixed; it is always clear which suggestions for instruction are drawn from the adult research and which are drawn from the K-12 research.

The suggestions for basic reading instruction with adults that are presented on this Website are the result of an evaluation of the research conducted by the Reading Research Working Group (RRWG), a collaborative effort of the National Institute for Literacy and the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. This collaboration is part of NIFL's efforts to provide educators, parents, and others with access to evidence-based reading research, including research-based tools for improving literacy programs and policies for children, youth, and adults, through the Partnership for Reading.