Adult Literacy Basics
This is the most common high school equivalency exam in the U.S.
What is the GED - General Educational Development Test?
This key goal of family literacy programs involves parents and children learning together.
A. intergenerational learning
B. parent-child learning
C. interfamily learning
What is intergenerational learning?
The process of sounding out words by mapping letters to their corresponding sounds.
A. Spelling
B. Phonics
C. Vocabulary
What is phonics?
What is the missing word?
Improved literacy has been shown to lead to higher ____________ rates and great success in the economic area of workforce development.
What is employment?
Name the 3 subjects that students are tested in adult education. (hint - TABE)
What are reading, writing and math?
A well-known nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing family literacy, name after a former first lady.
A. Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
B. Hilary Clinton Foundation for Family Literacy
C. Michelle Obama Foundation for Family Literacy
What is the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy?
This skill involves understanding and interpreting text, a primary goal of any literacy program.
A. reading comprehension
B. reading speed
C. reading rainbow
What is reading comprehension?
This is the primary month in which National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week is observed.
What is September?
This federal act, which stands for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, helps fund adult education programs and workforce development initiatives.
What is WIOA?
Research suggests this is the greatest determinant of a child's future academic success, even more than family income.
A. Mother's Occupation
B. Mother's number of children
C. Mother's Reading Skill
What is a mother's reading skill?
Fill in the blank.
In language word formation, a word may contain a prefix, root and/or __________.
What word is missing?
What is a suffix?
In addition to economic benefits, better adult literacy can lead to improve ___________ outcomes and increased participation in civic engagement.
A. Driving
B. Health
C. Dental
What is Health?
According to statistics cited by the National Coalition for Literacy, roughly this many U.S. adults struggle with basic literacy skills.
A. 23 million
B. 33 million
C. 43 million
What is 43 Million?
This term describes programs that integrate adult literacy, parent education, and early childhood education services.
A. Family Literacy
B. Parent Literacy
C. Child Literacy
What is family literacy?
TESOL which focuses on multilingual learners of English stands for what?
T- Teaching
E - English to
S - Speakers
O - Of Other
L - ____________?
What is Languages?
National AEFL Week is designed to raise public awareness and increase financial and societal support for these types of programs.
A. adult education
B. family literacy programs
C. both adult education and family literacy programs
What is adult education and family literacy programs.
This nonprofit organization was a key indicator in establishing National AEFL Week, working with members of Congress to have the week formally recognized.
A. National Coalition for Adult Education
B. National Coalition for Literacy
C. National Coalition for High School Equivalency
What is the National Coalition for Literacy (NCL)?
A study by Gallup, commissioned by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, showed that if all adults reached this reading level, the U.S. could generate an additional $2.2 trillion in annual income.
A. 5th grade reading level
B. 6th grade reading level
C. 7th grade reading level
What is the equivalent of a 6th grade reading level?
In addition to reading and writing, the language arts also includes what other communication skills?
A. Speaking
B. Listening
C. Both
What is both - speaking and listening?
During AEFL Week, advocates encourage people to reach out to elected officials and use this four-letter hashtag on social media.
What is #AEFLWeek?