[Dialogue] Literacy work with refugees and others

[Evelyn Philbrook]

Dear Marge, 

You should be able to see a link here in blue underlined.  This is the link
to the place where you can buy TeachTwo for 3.95 or the other version when
it is published.  Just clink on the link and select the one you want. 

http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/SearchCatalog.aspx 

If you click on the link and it does not work, just highlight the whole
thing, and ctrl C to copy it and then paste it into a search box and hit go.

Love, Evelyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Marge Philbrook
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:52 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Literacy work with refugees and others

Please repeat (I assume you have already answered this questionn) for me 
- What's the easiest way to get a copy of your book in its new or old 
edition.  Marge Philbrook

Chagnon at comcast.net wrote:

>Sunny, and anyone else interested,
>   I am putting in the mail for you a copy of my book,  "You, Yes YOU, Can
Teach 
>Someone to Read: A Step by Step How-To Book."  The Four-Level Reflection
(the name I prefer to horrid, I mean ORID, for the Art Form Method) is built
into the fabric of the 
>very first sessions, so as to begin to build a meaningful dialogue between
the two Learning Partners (tutor and new reader) by focusing on the life and
interests of the latter.    
>   To teach phonics I use small alphabet strips to build sets of rhyming
words, 
>which also increases the new reader's vocabulary.  Each set can have its
own file 
>card or page in a small notebook, lists created during the tutoring
session.  Alphabet strips, mindmaps, and planning charts are in the back of
the book with permission to duplicate. 
>   Anyone working with scripts like Arabic or Hebrew will appreciate my
emphasis 
>on starting with upper- rather than lowercase letters.  Once someone new to
the written  
>language (including our own children!!) knows the 11 uppercase that are
identical to lowercase (COPS UVWXYZ) and the five that are similar (Ff  iI
jJ kK  tT), they will have only 11 more lowercase letters to learn:  ab de
gh lmn qr.  They can thus learn to read both upper- and lowercase much more
quickly.  And since b d g q are among the last to be learned, the problem of
reversals takes a big hit!  As Marshall McLuhan said, "Environments are
invisible to those who are in them."  I don't know how teachers have missed
that one all these years--myself included. 
>  Anyone who also speaks the language of the Learning Partner can easily
translate and adapt all of the simple yet detailed methods in my book.  My
process has a built-in geometric progression of learning designed to turn
learners into tutors, as some of my Rutgers students did during the eight
years that I taught the Urban Literacy Practicum at Camden, NJ campus. I
just tried to enter my website:  www.teachtwo.net   and for some reason I
couldn't connect.  I will contact my webmaster, and by the time she gets to
it, you may be ready to check it out.  Let me know if you still get nowhere.
The book is print-on-demand:   $3.50 (e-manuscript) or $10 through
AuthorHouse, my publisher, and $12 if ordered through a bookseller. 
>   The copy I am sending you is the pre-first edition with no picture, just
a bland white cover.  I am in the process of changing the 2005 first edition
cover (of a wonderful kid lying on his stomach on the grass reading) to a
2006 edition whose cover picture of a young adult will specifically state
that the methods address youth, adults, and children.  Good luck with your
work, and let me know how I can be of further help.
>Fond regards,
>Lucille Chagnon
>on a warm day in Wilmington, De where snow had been predicted.
>
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