Reading Partners is a national nonprofit empowering community volunteers to help students gain the reading skills they need to reach their full potential. Since 1999 Reading Partners has grown from serving just one school to serving students in over 200 schools nationwide. By providing volunteer tutors research-based, structured lesson plans designed to focus on the individual needs of each student, Reading Partners is helping students become strong, confident readers with a passion for learning.
Hey Steffanie! After all of our time together on the Advisory Council, I enjoyed seeing you on the Reading Partners RU-vid channel. Thanks for volunteering!
Hey Will! After all of our time together on the Advisory Council, I enjoyed seeing you on the Reading Partners RU-vid channel. Thanks for volunteering!
I couldn't read until I was 32 - I'm now 60 and still can't read well. Life is definitely harder but not impossible and you can still achieve incredible things. The impact it has on your emotional development is most profound as you constantly feel 'less-than' and an 'imposter' as you need to lie about it. I'm sure people would think it is best shared but I grew up when you were just 'lazy' if you weren't reading and dyslexia didn't become well known until after I left school. Even today, people do not believe it when I tell them that I'm unable to read properly and I get it. How do you really demonstrate to someone something that comes so naturally to most people. So much so, that they just cannot even fathom what it's like to not read. I still - to this day - won't let go of the dream of being able to read properly one day! I simply cannot accept that I can't find a way....
This is memory work. how is the child supposed to be free thinker if you hammer everything into their heads and expect rote memory ro work to help them be free thinkers.? I never taught my kids this way. we just read and read and they got to their own conclusions. I do not agree with this memory work! I am not an educator but a pediatrician that believes kids should be exposed to reading and should come to their own conclusions by discussion and making sure they comprehend they are reading.
I agree, this is no time to cut money to early literacy programs, especially-- as you point out-- when RP relies so heavily on volunteers who are retirees above the age of 60, and we may not be allowed back on-site for awhile (hopefully, this will be left to our discretion). Sorry you had to give testimony on-line rather than in person. Can't make eye contact with council members this way, and that's a loss. You still made a good case even in this format!
