[Reading-hall-of-fame] Sticht books

[tsticht at znet.com]

Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that the National Adult Literacy
Database (NALD) has made available two early, out-of-print books by
colleagues and myself that have had considerable influence on the field of
adult literacy education in several industrialized nations.

One book is called Reading for Working and was influential in promoting
workplace literacy and the National Workplace Literacy Program of the U. S.
Department of Education and functional context education as recommended by
the focus on contextualized education in the Secretary of Labors Commission
on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). It also presents data on the
relationships of parent’s education to the literacy achievement of their
children.

The second book, Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model was reviewed by
Dr. William Blanton of Indiana University and he said that it was "
the
most significant contribution made on reading and listening in recent years
Indeed, it is a reference shelf item." (note this was circa 1974!).  It is
the first book applying modern cognitive science to literacy development
with children and adults. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. refers to information from the
book as "Sticht’s Law’ in his book on The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t
Have Them (1996) and his most recent book The Knowledge Deficit (2006)
cites the book for its focus on predicting reading development from
listening ability. It presents an early version of Phil Gough's Simple
Model of Reading.


Following are citations for the two books, web sites, and tables of
contents. They can be downloaded for free in either html or pdf formats.
Enjoy!

Tom Sticht


Reading for Working: A Functional Literacy Anthology

1. Sticht, Thomas G. (1975). Reading for Working. Retrieved May 05, 2006,
from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/rfw/cover.htm

Table of Contents
Chapter

1.	Introduction

Part I
Determining Functional Literacy Demands of Jobs
Introduction


2.	Readability of Job Materials
3.	Performing Job Reading Task
4.	Literacy in Relation to Job Knowledge, Job Performance, and Supervisor
Ratings
5.	Using Personnel Data Files to Estimate Reading Demands of Jobs
6.	Commentary on Methodologies for Determining Literacy Demands of Jobs

Part II
Reducing Discrepancies Between Literacy Skills of
Personnel and Literacy Demands of Jobs
Introduction


7.	Methods for Reducing Literacy Demands of Jobs.
8.	Functional Literacy Training: A Case Study

Part III
Collected Papers on Functional Literacy
Introduction
9.	Reading and Career Education
10.	A Career-Oriented Literacy Training System for the Armed Services
11.	Needed: A Functional Literacy Curriculum for the Secondary School





2. Sticht, Thomas G., Beck, Lawrence J., Hauke, Robert N., Kleiman, Glenn
M., & James, James H.(1974). Auding and Reading. Retrieved May 05, 2006,
from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/aar/cover.htm

Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model


Contents

I.	Introduction
	Language and Learning
	Previous Reviews on These Topics
	A Call for Theory
	And Yet Another Literature Review
	Overview of the Report


II.	The Developmental Model of Auding and Reading

III.	The Languaging Process
	The Nature of the Conceptual Base
	The Acquisition of the Conceptual Base
	The Acquisition of Languaging Ability
	The Phonological System
	Semantics: Individual Words as Holophrases
	Semantics: Meanings of Individual Words
	Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge



IV.	The Development of Listening/Looking and Auding/Reading Processes
	Hearing and Seeing: The Continuity of Organismic and Environmental
Information
	The Memory System
	The Development of Looking and Listening as Attentive Processes
	Auding as Listening
	Auding as Languaging
	Auding as a Tracking Task
	Reading as Looking
	Reading as Languaging
	Auding and Reading Compared


V.	A Review of Literature Related to Four Hypotheses Derived From the Model
	Hypothesis 1
	Hypothesis 2
	Hypothesis 3
	Hypothesis 4


VI.	Summary and Implications
	Review of the Hypotheses
	Some Accomplishments and Limitations of the Modeling Effort
	Implications