[Oe List ...] Jaime's Teach One, Learn Too

[Lifeline248 at aol.com]

Dear Jaime, 
     I love your family literacy slogan, Teach One, Learn Too!  It really 
echoes my Each of You Teach Two.   Following this note is part of a 
handout/summary of my pass it forward approach which can begin as early as when the new 
reader, young or old, reaches a third grade reading level.   
      What leads up to that and greatly simplifies and accelerates learning 
is sans serif capital letters.   By the time new readers know all 26, they can 
recognize all but 11 of the lowercase letters.   There is even greater 
acceleration if the tutoring Learning Partner uses the ProLiteracy (Literacy 
Volunteers of America) Language Experience Approach (LEA) which, as you know, simply 
means getting their Learning Partner to talk about their interests.   And 
voila, whether you print single words or exactly what they shared, much to their 
surprise and encouragement, they can read an amazing amount of it because it's 
theirs:   their passion, their world, sometimes their fears.   
     Have you read Sylvia Ashton-Warner's wonderful mid-century Teacher   in 
which she shares how she taught Maori pre-schoolers to read exactly that way.  
 That book had a profound influence on me decades ago.   
     I hope you will share the creative things you are doing with your sixth 
graders in other subjects.   I love hearing from you, Jaime, and I'm sure I'm 
not the only one.
Fond regards,
Lucille
     
                      EACH OF YOU TEACH TWO

             A Geometric Progression of New Readers
Turning the Community of Need into the Community of Service

If willing new Readers, 
    with their own Tutor-turned-Mentor at their side for as long as 
necessary,
 taught just two other adults or children to read 
    and encouraged each of their Learning Partners to do likewise with them
we could establish a Lifeline, a Geometric Progression of Learning, 
   a community-based foundation for empowering partnerships 
      across the great intellectual divide of economic class,
   a demonstration 
      that the community of need can indeed become the community of service,
and we could begin to wipe out illiteracy.

“If you believe you can or you can't, you're right.”     --Henry Ford

                                           Lucille T. Chagnon, M.Ed.

Literacy Acceleration Consultants
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