[Oe List ...] HOPE for the world

Lifeline248 at aol.com Lifeline248 at aol.com
Sun Nov 9 22:08:48 EST 2008


Dear Jaime, 
     Thank you so much for the articles that you've written and shared, not 
only with the people of Saipan, but with the listservve.   Those sixth graders 
are very fortunate to have a teacher like you.   And I was thrilled to see 
that your article contained a summary of the participatory methods that the Japan 
Global Conference on Human Devt. will be grounded in.   Will you be able to 
attend?
     I was also thrilled to see your emphasis on the fact "that the best way 
to learn is to teach what you learn."   As you've seen on my website, that is 
the focus of my literacy work, especially in my third book, You, Yes YOU, Can 
Teach Someone to Read: A Step by Step How-To Book.  There are few things 
harder to convince both teachers and everyone else of than the fact that just about 
any willing individual can teach someone to read.   So many kids are in 
special ed. because the publishers of basal readers have complicated the teaching 
of reading by introducing upper and lower case letters simultaneously.   Our 
adopted twin sons were in Special Ed five years back in the 80s until I finally 
learned that I--me? yes me--I could each them to read!   They, in turn, then 
taught the six-year-old daughter of friends of mine who are blind.    And when 
she was eight, with the same books she taught a six-year-old friend with no 
help from anyone.   The books?   Look up ballstickbird.com.  When you get past 
the Reebos of Jupiter you will find a goldmine of articles by the author, Dr. 
Renee Fuller, Ph.D--who has become a good friend.   Her Ph.D. is in 
physiological psychology, and she never took a college course on how to teach reading; 
but she understood how the body and brain function.   Her simple method outranks 
any I have ever seen.   
     Renee escaped to the US from Hitler when she was nine, and three years 
later, the summer before entering 7th grade, she taught herself to read with 
second grade reading skills and the Wizard of Oz books.   Her book, In Search of 
the IQ Correlation, is a summary of the incredible results of research she 
did in the 70s at Rosewood, the state institution for the retarded in Owings 
Mills, MD.   In her study, 24 of 26 individuals with IQs from the 30s to the low 
70s learned to read.   Four were de-institutionalized!   No longer a believer 
in the IQ as a predictor of intelligence, the content of the book is a 
symposium she presented at an American Psychological Association conference.
     Enough for now.   I get carried away.   It's always good to hear from 
you, Jaime.   Keep in touch.
Grace, Peace, and Love,
Lucille

Lucille T. Chagnon, M.Ed.
Literacy Acceleration Consultants
6448 Arbor Lane - P O Box 438
Chincoteague Island, VA 23336-0438
757-336-5047 fax -1391
cell 302-561-4575
e-mail: lifeline248 at aol.com
www.teachtwo.net




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