Literacy Program

I used to be a literacy volunteer but I have not done it for years now. I loved the time spent teaching someone to read. It is amazing how many adults cannot read in our area. Some even have a high School deploma. Most do not though. Most had to quit school at an early age to help on the farm. Sad. I am glad to see you are starting a reading program in your area. Reading and the love of reading is a wonderful thing. It has the ability to take us to places that we would normally never get to go.

Well,I am a school teacher and have to read to my kids once a week at least one of those big books which are colorful and enjoyable to read. Kids realy love that. I am no celebrity, but I do try to introduce basic literacy terms like author, illustrator, capitalisation, vocabulary, grammar and stuff like that. It is difficult to integrate all of these inone reading but if you link it to their pre existing schema they will be able to relate and enjoy the story better and subconciously pick up these literacy skills.

I am a primary school teacher and I specialized in Literacy when I was at university. Your literacy program sound very exciting for the children. I am sure it captures their interest and imagination. I think a good idea is a good idea to bring in 11 year old to read to 5 year olds. Then they can see it is not just adults that can read. One week a year in a school I taught at had book week. During this each class did a project about a particular children's author and one of their books. One afternoon each teacher read a book and the children choose which story telling they wanted to go to. I read a picture book about a penguin and afterward the children took part in a craft protect to make a penguin out of cardboard. At the end of the week the children had a party and dressed up as a character from a book.