Literacy Lover Gifts

'About half the students increased speed and lost some comprehension. The other half increased comprehension but lost some speed.'

'Where's everybody?'

' No, it's 'I' before 'E', except after 'C'!'

Poor Brett was still hooked on phonics well into his thirties.

Good writing is good thinking

Ab Bb Cc Dd Etc

Dyslexia supprot staff

Litterature

The War on Illiteracy is Ernest.

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

"If you're trying to keep secrets from me by spelling out the words. Might I remind you that I am in year ten!"

"First, we'll need to start with the basics."

"The English language is a moveable feast... some people dine on it... some just take bites."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"Igor, you fool, this isn't what I wanted you to get for me!!!"

A Puppet Named Juan

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

Big Bang Theory.

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"You haven't got dyslexia- the instructions are in polish."

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

I will study my speling words...