Achieving Literacy Milestone Gifts

'Before I quit I couldn't even spell rehabilitation.'

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"I give up. Where's the power button?"

'I know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about the bears and the bulls.'

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

Toy Shops and Educated Children

Woman crying with happiness.

'Sure, I took your shovel. Ethics doesn't kick in for a year or two.'

'What does it say, Dad?'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'Guess what? I won again.'

After many years of wavering Dennis finally makes the decision to step out of his comfort zone.

"We just got our online schooling exam results..."

"We call it 'learning to read', not 'battling illiteracy'."

"Don't be a dummy, Justin - You gotta learn your ABC's so you can Google stuff."

'Oh Darling, I'm so proud! I wish I could give you a big hug!'

Good writing is good thinking

"But if I don't learn handwriting, how will I be able to read Grandma's letters?"

Spell-Check Bee

"Mommy wants you to know where your food comes from."

"Ambitions... to make it to the other side."

"Hal said he had big dreams...so he bought this bed."

At 4 years old most kids can say easy straightforward sentences.

'He's feeling very proud of himself. He went to watchdog school and graduated 'Magna cum loudly.''

It was time for Junior to learn to fly.

We are here!

'Literacy is NOT overrated!'

"He's in first grade. He'll get to Zs."

"Great first glide son! Oh, by the way, remind me to teach you how to land tomorrow..."

Car's bumper sticker reads: 'My other car is a bookmobile.'

"And that's the day we said goodbye to the No Child Left Behind legislation and were free to teach again."

Litterature

"I don't know about you but I can't wait to get back to our book club!"