[Dialogue] Kerry's wife; Building learning triads

[Lucille Chagnon]

Sunny et al.,
    That was strong--and I want to write strong/wrong--stuff, to be
presuming that THKerry support all of those causes.  But I see where your
mom is coming from.
    My two siblings and I don't talk politics.  My sister (in DC) and I are
on the same page, but several months ago my brother (in FL) forwarded us a
piece about how America is going to pieces because of foreign immigration.
I did not respond; but there have been a few things I wanted to send him and
decided not to get his back up--which may be a very unfair judgment on my
part.
ANY SUGGESTIONS of material that is inoffensively helpful?  Ha!  Tall order
or illusion?  I frankly don't know at this point.  I am focused on sending
positive energy to all from the White House to Baghdad and from Wilmington
to the back streets of the inner city.

On another matter:

    Yesterday, Saturday, after a year's work, most of which was months of
fine tuning and simplifying, I finally mailed the 124-page manuscript of my
third book to AuthorHouse (formerly FirstBooks) my print-on-demand publisher
in Bloomington, IN.  It's titled You, Yes YOU, Can Teach Someone to Read: A
Step by Step How-to Book.
    ICA colleagues Marilyn Crocker and David Lazear wrote glowing
endorsements, as did Joseph Chilton Pearce (Magical Child).  I also got
brief endorsements from a Past President of the National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE) for whom I taught Developmental Reading at Rutgers-Camden
and from a Past President of the International Reading Association
(IRA--based right next door to Wilmington in Newark, DE,--pronounced new
ark).  Those two meant much to me in terms of mainstream education
endorsement, although my focus personally, will be on prisons, juvenile
institutions, homeless family shelters, and the mentally retarded.
    More on the book later because it seeks to build a geometric progression
of tutors, turning dyads into triads with tutors mentoring new readers
who've reaching a third grade level as they together teach a child to read.
We learn best what we teach!  I'm hoping that ICA colleagues around the
globe will consider tutoring at least two people to get many geometric
progressions going.  Although the book is copyrighted, the methods are not.

Lucille Chagnon

on a sunny day in Wilmington, DE where the small birds have found the new
feeder and the squirrels wait for the seeds that drop.  We won!  (And we got
our money back on the squirrel-proof feeder on which that the squirrels
chewed a big hole in the plastic under the metal cap.  Them rodents ain't
dumb.)