Adult basic literacy tutoring may include teaching phonics, word recognition, vocabulary, reading comprehension and spelling.

“The intrinsic desire to read is there in everyone,” says LaTonya Harris, a Coppin State College senior teaching in the ... t use first-grade books and phonics drills with 15-year-olds.

Phonics instruction is still a part of this kind of teaching methodology but in a less structured manner. Instead of teaching phonics sequentially, teachers might discuss letter-sound ...