The Literacy Requirements of an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic on the Job and in a Vocational Training Program.

As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required it ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional 'information about industrial maintenance mechanics. FactiiaI data,are presented,in Parts I tnd II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These secttons note the specific literacy requirements (reading, writing, listening, speaking, tind mathematics) that were .identified at three job sites and in three vocational training programs. Part III presents instructional metho4s/materials that adult basic education'teachers can use to devel0 literacy skills while imparting job related knowledge. The lessen format is based on a directed reading activity and includes vocabulary and concept, development, sentence and organizational structure, silent reading, and skill development4 Appendixes list the techhical vocabulary that industrial maintenande mechanics reed to know, the 100 words that represent 45% of the language sampled for the,entire project, and occupational literacy requirements for the ten occupations that wete studied. (AEA)