Personal Progression Stories
ProLiteracy is a non-profit organization similar to Project Read. The ultimate goal of ProLiteracy is to improve the literacy rates of people, communities, and societies.
The attached link will direct you and your student to four short stories of students who successfully navigated their literacy program, as well as how their life has changed for the better. The stories range in length from a few paragraphs to a page. Print a copy of each of the four stories for your student.
These stories are easy to read, and the subject matter pertains to our student’s needs. The major benefits of utilizing stories that focus on our student’s self-interests are as follows:
- Your student will be able to relate to the ProLiteracy student’s experiences and their confidence level will increase with knowledge that literacy is possible.
Quality of life can also increase once literacy is achieved, as expressed by these four student’s examples.
Another exercise would be to have your student compose a short story of their own struggles with illiteracy and their small triumphs over it. Help your student highlight a specific trial or series of events, how they overcame the obstacle, and how they felt afterwards.
Link: http://proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=347&srcid=303
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