[Dialogue] Lucille's new book

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Congratulations, Lucille, on completing your book. Hope to see it soon.  
Love, Jann


    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.


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