The Beginning Readers for Adults are a series of three Copy Masters books suitable for people with mild intellectual desabilities, beginner readers and students in the early stages of learning English as a second language. They have been used Australia wide in the Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE) areas of adult literacy and with students with mild intellectual disabilities. All the sets have been trialled successfully with students with an intellectual disability in classes at Japara.

The writer, Sue Chambers has been a tutor in the ALBE and disability fields since 1988 and is involved in curriculum and program development as well as co-ordinating programs at The Bridge Community Garden Centre.

The Beginning Readers for Adults series of books comprises:

• Beginning Money Skills for Adults - suitable for students who need to develop their money skills beyond the basic money recognition stage. Emphasis is on counting combinations of coins. The addition and subtraction, the multipliction and division of money.
• Money Wise, covers:
• Door to door sales
• ATMs, EFTPOS and banking by phone
• Buying by mail order
• Shopping at sales
• Your rights as a shopper
• Ideas for teachers
• Reading tape
• Snakes, covers:
• Snakes alive
• How to care for a victim of a snake bite
• Snake legends
• Is the only good snake a dead snake?
• Australian snake slang
• Plus tutors only curriculum ideas

Please fill out our Beginning Readers Order Form to order any or all of these books.