Re: Commnicating with an audience of low literacy levels

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Condo, Candis wrote:
> Hmmmm. Back in the dark ages when I was in a grade school, we learned 
> to read by reading. Fancy that. I walked to a library (no, my parents 
> did not drive me there; my mother did not drive, my father traveled) 
> and I borrowed books. I then took them home and read them. There were 
> not a lot of books in my home. My parents were not avid readers but I 
> read as did all my five sibs. Librarians took an interest in us and we 
> all love to read to this day.

Flashback to the book mobile that used to come around to my neighborhood 
for a couple of hours a week in summer. What a relief that was, getting 
new stuff to read.
>  
> So what's the secret? Turn off the TV. Turn off the video games. Pick 
> up a book and read.
>  

Yep.  My point about volunteer tutoring was that it can kickstart 
reading, and that is enough to change a life, at least that's how I 
think of it. I've often thought about how happy I might be in jail, with 
nothing much to do but read. But the life of crime, that's not me, I 
just like to read.  
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