Adult Reading Class at Griffin Tech
Adult Literacy Instructor Discusses We All Can Read Program
Instructor using We All Can Read Curriculum to teach class of adults.
Students in class discuss program’s impact on their lives.
(Audio quality is poor. Turn up volume to hear better.)
Below are some of the comments students make in the above video:
I would like to say something about the program. I know it’ a sure thing; it’s slow, but it’s sure. It’s not something that you can walk out the door and forget. You can always remember the sounds…On my job I have to do a lot of writing, and it is just a whiz now when it use to be a problem. You would get a difficult word that you hadn’t heard before, and it would be a problem. But with the sounds, I just think about the sounds, and I have the word…It’s so sure; it’s there; it’s solid. It’s not anything you can forget.
Student 1: “Right now I can’t pick up something and read it; the reason I came to school was so that when I pick up something, I can read it.” Student 2: “Well I think not knowing how to read is a handicap on all parts, on everything. If you can’t read, you can’t do anything but what you have to. And that is why I am here; I am tired of the struggle.” Student 3: “I felt left out and lost like you are missing something, like you want to quit, not getting anywhere.” Student 4: “If you can read, you don’t have to depend on somebody else to do something for you…I don’t have to wait around and wait on somebody else to tell me what to do, how to do it, and how they want it done.” Student 5: “Where I’m working now, I have to do the harder jobs, cuz I can’t read that well. It’s rough; I have to take the hard jobs…I’m the only one who can’t read.” Instructor: “That will change, won’t it? Student 6: “The main reason I want to learn how to read is because I have two boys, one in the ninth grade and one in the fifth grade. And they bring paperwork home…and it hurts me that they know that I can’t read. But now I can take their papers and read some of the words. I don’t know all the words, but I can understand now most of what it’s all about.”