Programmed Reading Collection for Adult Literacy

Our Programmed Reading Collection is a graduated scheme beginning with large print titles and accompanying cassette tapes/CDs, moving to medium print editions with tapes/CDs, and then normal print editions without audio.

Students are then encouraged to progress to junior non-fiction - located in the adult section - or to adult large print fiction.

Finally students advance to ordinary adult material.

This collection is only available at the CityLibraries- Flinders Street.

There is something for tutors, teachers, and students alike. The collection is categorised into five different areas using distinctive colour-coded:

• Black - material designed to expand tutor knowledge.
• Brown - resource material for tutors and students, or for students working alone.
• Green - beginner level fiction and non fiction recreational reading.
• Blue - intermediated level fiction and non-fiction recreational reading.
• White - material for Culturally And Linguistically Diverse (CALD) students.

Teachers may be interested in arranging a tour to familiarise students with the library and its resources. The tour includes:

• how to join the library,
• the Programmed Reading Collection,
• the World Language Collection,
• the Living History and Local History Collections
• our public internet terminals, and
• for CALD students, how to access information and newspapers in their native language.

For more information, please contact CityLibraries.

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