Sorry, the link didn't work--possibly because it  included only Tea and not chers?
Bonnie Odiorne

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From: "Martha Jean" <mjean at communityactioninc.org> 


> IE Great Books! 

> 

> I wanted to let others know about the wonderful experience my students 

> and I are having with The Life of PI. My ABE 1 class (ranges from low 

> level readers to waiting-for-room-in-the-Pre/GED class) has been 

> listening to me read as they followed in their own book, about twice a 

> week since September.(My class is Mon-Thursday 9am -11:15am) I've done 

> vocabulary activities for almost every chapter, we've done repeated 

> visualizing for comprehension and recall, we've gone on the Internet to 

> find pictures of sloths, tigers, and hyenas as well as Krishna, and 

> Shiva, and we created our own temple like Pi's home. ( students and I 

> brought in: a Muslim prayer mat, a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a 

> statue of the elephant head four armed Ganesha,etc) My expectation for 

> most is not for them to read at this level, but to experience higher 

> level reading for the pleasure of a good story and to develop vocabulary 

> and comprehension skills. Yesterday, as we got into the story of how Pi 

> ended up on a lifeboat with a zebra, orang-utan, hyena, and tiger, my 

> students were clearly caught up in the drama of the story. Then I had 

> that teacher's thrill to see one student keep reading when I stopped for 

> break. All my students take the book with them when they move on to 

> Pre-GED. Today we find out what happens to the maddened hyena!!! Oh the 

> pleasure of a good book! Martha Jean 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message----- 

> From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov 

> [mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of David J. 

> Rosen 

> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:18 AM 

> To: professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov 

> Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 760] Movies and texts about 

> low-literateadults 

> 

> Professional Development Colleagues, 

> 

> Several weeks ago I asked about books and movies that inspired you as a 

> teacher. We had a rich and interesting discussion that produced a 

> terrific list that I have archived on the Adult Literacy Education Wiki 

> at 

> 

> http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Books_and_Films_which_Inspire_Tea 

> chers 

> 

> I hope you -- and others -- will help now with another question. Can 

> you recommend good books or movies (or scenes from movies) that you 

> believe authentically capture the experience of an adult learning to 

> read, write or compute. The film "Stanley and Iris" comes to mind, for 

> example. For some it is an authentic example, for others it is 

> inauthentic. I am also interested to hear about scenes from films that 

> you believe are inauthentic, or that just plain get it wrong, and I 

> would like to know what you think was inauthentic about it. I would 

> also appreciate hearing from people who learned (or are learning) to 

> read as adults. From your experience as a person who has learned to 

> read as an adult, what texts, what films ring true? Which don't? 

> 

> Those of you who teach adult new readers might be willing to take this 

> question to your students and post back to the list what they say. 

> 

> Thanks for your help. 

> 

> David J. Rosen 

> djrosen at comcast.net 

> 

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