Book Review for “Life Is So Good”

I like the memoir because George Dawson never gave up his dream to read and write. George was born in the late 1800’s. His parents were not slaves, but his grandparents were once slaves. George was raised in Texas. His family was poor, and he never attended school. Georges started working at a very young [...]

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Book Review for “The Pact “

The Pact is about three young men who lived in the projects around drugs and peer pressure from old friends who did not want anything out of life. So George and Sam and Rameck made a pact to go to college. The young men had positive people in their lives, like a teacher, a friend’s [...]

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Book Review for “Dragonwings:Golden Mountain”

Dragonwings is a good book to read because you have a good feeling to know someone’s dream came true, like Moonshadow’s father’s dream. Moonshadow is a young man. When he was just [...], he had a chance to join his father who he had never seen before in the United States. He went through a [...]

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Welcome New Tutors

We want to welcome seven new volunteer tutors to the Write to Read Adult Literacy Program who will be working at several Alameda County library branches. They attended a Saturday, November 3rd training in the morning (Reading Clubs) and afternoon (one-on-one) facilitated by our Write to Read teachers and tutor coordinators, Krista Shaffer and Kiran Malavade. [...]

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Some activities from Sanju

reading-clubs-what-if-questions.doc  reading-clubs-idioms-quiz-2-1.doc  reading-clubs-idioms-quiz-1-1.doc  reading-clubs-flash-cards-word-exercise-2.doc  activity1.doc  Here are some of Sanju’s activities that she used in her reading club, both as conversation starters and as ways to build her students’ vocabulary. 

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Book Review for “The Secret School”

 I think that this is a good book to read. This book tells about several children that go to a school in the early 1900’s in the Colorado Mountains.There is one teacher that teaches several grades. There are two students who are ready to graduate, but the teacher has some bad news, that she has [...]

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Book Review for “My Life in Dog Years”

Reading this book, My Life in Dog Years was an OK book. You read all the different dogs’ stories. What every dog’s personality is, and what the dog does with him. Some stories are very interesting. It is an easy book to read. If you like reading about dogs, this book has all kinds of [...]

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Book Review for “Having Our Say”

I recommend this book to people who like to read true stories. I enjoyed it very much. This book is about the Delany sisters, who lived over 100 years and never got married. They were descendants of a black family when slavery existed. Their family got mixed with the white race, but even though they [...]

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Teaching Vocabulary

We have heard several reading club tutors express interest in helping their students improve vocabulary, and in finding out from other tutors how they have worked vocabulary development into their reading clubs. Here are two documents Krista wrote while in school at San Francisco State about vocabulary development activities that can be used with an [...]

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Student-Tutor Agreement Form

Here is the form for pairs starting 1-1 tutoring. It should be filled out at the first meeting and returned to Kiran. student tutor agreement.doc

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