LAPL Adult Literacy Services
READ Newsletter: Spring 2014
Carol’s Story By Tutor Carol Camus-Niwa
I love working with Maria, because she’s a lot like me!
She’s always on time, does all her homework, and is very smart and ambitious.
She’s the “supermom” with two children still living at home, (one with special
needs), who makes sure her kids are being properly tended to at school and at
home, and for that she needs the poise of being able to speak and write
confidently and correctly to administrators, teachers and therapists.
After retiring from teaching English as a Second
Language in adult school, I spent most of my leisure time reading, which I’ve always loved,
riding bicycles, hiking, and having lunch with my “old-lady” friends; but
teaching was always a pleasure for me, never seemed like work. I found out
about the literacy program at a library one day and, as they say, the rest is
history. The books we are given to work within the literacy program put a lot
of emphasis on grammar and syntax for native speakers, but Maria is not a
native speaker, so we supplement our materials with “ESL” books, which break
things down into past, present and future . . .
Maria’s Story By Learner Maria Anguiano
One thing I like about my class is that we meet at a
convenient time, when my children are at school. My teacher has a lot of
patience with me, because there are many things I don’t understand. I have
learned a lot in the last nine months since we started working together. When I
read to my kids, my pronunciation is better and I understand the stories I read
to them because I understand some of the ways that indicate past, present and
future. I can recognize more words now.
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