Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id NAA16051; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:21:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:21:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <36EEA21E.8E7E4E0@goldenrule.com> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Clover Williams <cnwilliams@goldenrule.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:38] Re: Introducing Myself X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Status: OR I'm Clover Williams. Like most of us, I have a patchwork of ABE interests. My GED is hanging on the wall next to my PhD. For awhile I taught college-level English in prison, mostly to guys who had gotten their GEDs inside (and/or who should never have been placed in a college program but were determined to make it work). Now I edit and publish a little zine and website of prisoner-written literature. (Some of the stuff I publish is highly literate, and some isn't.) My day job is researching early childhood reading acquisition. My most immediate reason for being here, though, are my attempts to teach a friend to read fluently. Maybe someone has suggestions. Technically she can read--she can pick through words and has a fantastic vocabulary--but reading's halting and unpleasant for her, and she has trouble with any but the simplest syntax even in spoken speech. She says letters swim, but only sometimes. Knows letter-sound correspondances, but could probably use some phonemic awareness work. No one ever told her about root words and such, so spellings seem totally chaotic to her. Learning about this stuff is helping her comprehension of new words somewhat, but she doesn't have a big enough picture of it yet to demystify sound representations. Barbara Garner wrote: > I've asked list members to introduce themselves and explain why > they've subscribed to the Focus on Basics list. I'll start. > > I'm Barbara Garner, editor of Focus on Basics. I'm based at World > Education, in Boston. I have, in my time, worn many different ABE > 'hats', from teaching, to training, to funding. > > One of the reasons I started the list is that, as editor, I get to > discuss each FOB article with a group of colleagues (the editorial > board) a number of times. I also get to talk with all the authors. I > find that process amazingly intellectually stimulating; editorial > board members say they enjoy it, too. > > I thought it would be fun to see if we can take this "book club" > approach on-line and include many more voices in the discussion. > I also hope I will learn from the discussion and reflect what I learn > in future issues of Focus on Basics. > > ****************************** > > Barbara Garner phone (617) 482-9485 > World Education fax (617) 482-0617 > 44 Farnsworth Street e-mail bgarner@worlded.org > Boston, MA 02210-1211
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