LITERACY STATISTICS: IMPROVE READING

LITERACY - Defintion of 21ST CENTURY Literacy

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Learn how to read, how to write, how to use computers, how to find and evaluate information found on the net. Find out more about literacy and approaches to improving it.

This web site is an innovative dynamic model using the World Wide Web and integrating Literacy, Technology and the Arts, effecting a systemic change for the disenfranchised group of people created by illiteracy. Using technology this project will teach children to read and write Standard English and turn a destructive situation around by, addressing the root causes of social problems through a neutral, non judgmental process giving the child's home dialect the dignity it deserves. Improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding world culture. And lastly to help all children (especially girls), teachers, and regular folks to learn to use and feel comfortable with technology.

IDEATION SCAFFOLDING Evolution of Language How the Brain Works From Quill to Keys Old Pedagogy Problems to New Pedagogy Solutions Sync Sense Social Rhythm Research Experts Sync & Swim -- Find Connections Between: Speech, Music, Reading, & Technology Motivation The Key is Laughter ~ Play Using Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles Culturally Relevant Content Integrate literacy (Language Arts), the arts (music) and technology into the classroom using Interdisciplinary, thematic, collaborative Online Curriculum

Learn how to successfully bridge from the Dialect Speakers' home language to the Standard Language.

What do Administrators, Teachers, and the Public need to know about Dialect Speakers?

42 million adults in the US are "functionally literate," meaning that they can't read the front page of the newspaper. Will these folks vote? This is the shocking truth about the Literacy Levels of American Adults.

WHAT GOOD IS THE CORE CURRICULUM IF KIDS CAN'T READ?

  THE FOCUS

• 35 percent of American children start school without the language skills necessary to learn to read. [source]
• Where it starts - with animals.
  Language is present in non human animals. Research the language of birds, bees, whales, dolphins, gorilla's, Bonobo's, gestures and syntax.
  Yes, they ALL HAVE LANGUAGE.
• ROOTS OF OUR VOICE
  Language Evolution - Musical roots may lie in human voice. How do babies begin to acquire language? Tonal Language and Perfect Pitch
• Why should links exist between music and language?
• The origin or words: Where do words come from? How do babies begin to acquire language? Rhythmic patterns underlie the human language. How children learn the meanings of words. Grammer is hard wired. Letters are shaped that way for a reason. Rhythm and pitch give the meaning.
• The big picture is transdisciplinarity. It includes understanding that treaching kids to read depends on what the teacher knows about Linguistics, Music, Gestures, Rhythm, Pitch, and the evolution of brain development.

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"The failure of inner-city schools to teach children to read is among the most serious social problems that our country faces."

~ Dr. William Labov
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology
Director of the Linguistics Lab at the Univ. of Pennsylvania