My students have low reading levels (two to three grades below). Can the curriculum work for them as well?
More than 17,500 JTPA participants used the Career Choices curriculum during the summers of 1994 and 1995. The JTPA population includes a high percentage of students with reading levels well below grade level. Because the material covered in the curriculum is so relevant to the adolescents, the motivation is present to try harder to read, understand and comprehend the written word. Instructors report that the unique design of the text is also “friendlier” to the students. Because students feel less threatened by Career Choices than by more traditional textbooks, they are more willing to struggle with their reading.
