*excerpts from: A Practical Guide for Teaching Adults with Learning Difficulties

Diagnosis: In a dictation, the student has grammar problems.

Possible teaching strategies:

• Check the student’s knowledge of grammar and teach the rules not yet mastered.
• Teach the student to ask himself questions during the dictation about the relationships among words.
• Give the student sentences to study regularly.
• Ask the student to summarize the rules that cause problems, to write them down in a notebook and to illustrate them with his own examples (not those in the book).

Welcome! New Tutors

The Yamaska Literacy Council would like to welcome the new tutors who took part in our fall workshops.

Lyla Wilson Josée Magnée Emily Morrison Teresa Maguire Gordon Matthew Dominic Carrière Terry King Raymond Steele Emmanuel Ferrereira

Stacey Tremblay Meagan Powell Vanessa Swett Samantha Carrier Leigh-ann Côté Tanya Smeltzer Dana-Marie Martin Nina Rychard Jess Adams Robyn Bradley

YLC AGM

Denis Jones & Wendy Seys

Students and tutors gathered together at the YLC office on October 26th for YLC’s Annual General Meeting, and to recognize the efforts of Denis Jones. Denis was awarded the Cooperator’s Award for his dedication to improvement in reading and writing skills.

Joani Tannenbaum

YLC members welcomed Alan Ross as incoming president, as former president, Joani Tannenbaum resigned the post in order to work on an IFPCA contract for the council—My Rights, Plain and Simple. Materials, addressing basic legal issues, will be written at controlled reading levels for students and produced by next fall.

ABC Canada: Family Day is January 27, 2006

To celebrate Family Literacy Day this year the YLC will be distributing book baskets to CLSC’s throughout the area we serve. The books chosen will be aimed at children under seven.

We are looking for volunteers to organize and/or distribute the baskets to the various localities. If you have any suitable books in good condition, that you would like to donate or you would like to volunteer, please contact the office.

If you would like to know more about ABC-Canada which organizes Family Literacy Day, check out their website—http://www.abc-canada.org/fld/

They have many literacy activities that you can print out and share with your family and friends, including word puzzles, a Robert Munsch story, recipes, etc.