Return-Path: <nifl-family@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 MAA03485; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:52:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:52:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3634B778.5720E01A@columbia-center.org> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jeanette Howell <jmhowell@columbia-center.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1740] Re: sports X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) I also am an Even Start Director and a teacher. I truly believe that reading something that we are interested in and means something to us is one of life's greatest pleaseures. As a teacher for at-risk youth, I often found auto magazines to be useful reading material. Once you hook a student, adult or child, on reading they are usually readers for life! Zulmara Cline wrote: > Hello, > > Just read with interest that the sports pages should be read as a > reward > after reading the rest of the paper. I could not agree less. I think > > learning to read, reading for meaning, and loving to read only come > when we > are allowed to read what we are interested in. Using reading as a > reward, > especially in a family literacy program is very inappropriate--where > the > premise that we work on the strengths that others bring. > > As a "reader" I like having my interests respected and we should > deliver no > less for our students. I applaud the teacher who recognized the > strength > in having the students read what they were interested in and going > with > that flow to further their basic understanding of reading. > > Zulmara Cline > Even Start Director
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