[Dialogue] Literacy work with refugees and others

Fri Mar 24 17:04:18 EST 2006

I am very interested in getting the book on literacy -- "You, Yes YOU,
Can Teach Someone to Read: A Step by Step How-To Book."  The Four-Level
Reflection"   Is that the same book as the TeachTwo that you mention
below?  If they are two different publications, I am interested in
getting both of them.  Do I go to the web address you list for both
publications?

Thanks for guidance.

Lucia Ann

Lucia Ann McSpadden, Ph.D.
Coordinator of International Student Support 
Adjunct Faculty
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue
Berkeley, CA  94709
1-510-849-8250
1-510-845-8948 [fax]
lmcspadden at psr.edu
check our website at www.psr.edu

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From: Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Evelyn Philbrook
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:43 AM
To: 'Colleague Dialogue'
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Literacy work with refugees and others

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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