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Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:39] Basic reading
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Clover,
Focus on Basics Volume 1, Issue B, was on reading (find it on the
ncsall web site, http://hugse1.harvard.edu/~ncsall). You might find
some ideas there. Two articles in particular come to mind: What Silent
Reading Tests Alone Can't Tell You by John Strucker, and Reversing
Reading Failure in Young Adults by Mary E. Curtis and Ann Marie Longo.
Barb Garner
>>> Clover Williams <cnwilliams@goldenrule.com> 03/16 1:20 PM >>>
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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