Achieving Literacy Milestone Gifts

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

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

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

"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..."

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

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

Toy Shops and Educated Children

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

'What does it say, Dad?'

Woman crying with happiness.

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

'Guess what? I won again.'

How's your nephew doing in human school this year? Great! He has a calculator and spell checker like last year, and this fall new features have been added. With new translation software he can take language classes now, and for social studies he just clicks "history." Bonjour! I'm so proud! He has the school's highest G.P.A.! Other students can't copy off him anymore because he started using encrypted code. His favorite upgrade is the enhanced ability to process school lunches. He's bee

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'."

Good writing is good thinking

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

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

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

Spell-Check Bee

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

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

It was time for Junior to learn to fly.

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

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

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

We are here!

'Literacy is NOT overrated!'

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

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

Litterature

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

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