August 19th, 2010
Category: General Literacy
Tags: Books, Durfee, Gifts, heart, Music, Program, School, SUPPORTS, Texas
Children help children … the children at the Durfee Music School of Texas entertain guest at the May 26, 2010 gala. In Harris County, roughly 50% of children graduate from High School. Those statistics just aren’t acceptable. These numbers are deplorable, and something needs to be done to help foster the love of reading in our children. HOUSTON (TX) — Benny Bear Visits the Hospital, the new book created to help support The BOOKS Program, help make a child’s hospital stay a little less frightening and help improve childhood literacy, was unveiled on May 26, 2010 at a gala hosted…
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August 18th, 2010
Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Find, Foreign, Popular, Program
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part two, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website Wikipedia. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style, and global media.…
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August 17th, 2010
Category: Adult Literacy
Tags: Lesson, part, Phonics, Program, Read, Reading
www.weallcanread.com Thislesson is one of 644 online lessons available from our website listed above. Our online phonics reading lessons combine video, audio, and text and enable students to work independently. Our online lessons are systematic, comprehensive, and teach older students and adults to read and spell.
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August 14th, 2010
Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Find, Foreign, Popular, Program
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part one, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website IMDB.com. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style and global media.…
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August 6th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Activities, Child, Early, Ensures, Every, Fast, Literacy, poems, Program, Readers, Reading, Reproducible, ResearchBased, SendHome, Start, Success
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This simple, research-proven early intervention program builds reading proficiency, word recognition, and overall comprehension. Ten minutes each night, parents and children engage in repeated, guided reading of poems just right for early readers, then do a quick, skill-building activity. Plus, 30 stickers, tips on involving families, and reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs!
Fast Start For Early Readers: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems and Activities That Ensures Reading Success for Every Child
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August 6th, 2010
Category: Illiteracy ARTICLES
Tags: eradicating, Illiteracy, Mother's, Program, scholarship, Women
All individuals are equal in terms of rights, and they are meant to learn and receive the wonderful gifts of education. But, because of certain beliefs, principles, and financial constraints there are some whose lives just revolve under the roofs of their homes. President Barrack Obama’s initiative favored on the side of mothers- that is, to bring them back to school with the help of the scholarship for mothers program.
This scholarship program was made a success with the U.S. government’s allotment of up to $10,000 allowance for mothers in the entire America. This will be used to finance their…
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There is a program called adopt a school in my city. Well i just joined and the school is performing bad academically.. I have to develop programs to help them overcome this problem. Anyways, i need some Ideas on what I can do. The only thing that I came up with is having an adult literacy class for the parents.. Any ideas?
I am looking for schools in an area that offer an ESL program (English as a Second Language) and wondering if there is a good place that would list these.
I am a certified teacher/full time middle school tutor. I recently had a friend approach me and ask me to help her to improve her grammar and vocabulary and reading comprehension and fluency. She has a high school education but has trouble pronouncing certain words correctly (due to her thick regional accent). I would like to help her but have never taught an adult before. She has a hectic schedule so I am wondering if anyone can recommend any kind of curriculum that I could use to help her in my spare time and also a software program that she…
I have two bachelor’s degrees; one in Communication Media and the other in Spanish. I am interested in teaching or helping teach ESL classes, but I discovered one must be certified. If I have a bachelor’s in Spanish already, will that help me a tad? In other words, do I need to get another bachelor’s but in education? Or can I just build on my Spanish/Communications Media degrees???