Burke Augustine Literacy Project

Are you seeking a volunteer opportunity that only requires 3 hours per week? Come learn what it means to tutor one child but change two lives forever! Saturday, April 29 at 10am at Oak Hill United Methodist Church. You will be glad you came!

Are you looking for a volunteer opportunity where you can truly make a difference? We need you!

The Augustine Literacy Project Carolina Impact, Season 7: Episode 17 (February 25, 2020) The Augustine Literacy Project is helping hundreds of local kids meet the third grade reading requi...

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny has been cancelled for April 4 due to concerns with spread of virus. So very sorry. We will refund all money for tickets purchased. Thank you for supporting us!

Fabulous Saturday morning learning games to play with our students to make learning to read fun! Thank you Kim Harvey and Becky Beerbower for sharing your expertise! And thank you to our dedicated Volunteer tutors for giving up your free time to change the life of a child forever!

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2019 Constanze ALP-PGA TOUR Video This is "2019 Constanze ALP-PGA TOUR Video" by Jessica Klasinski on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Struggling to read does not negate a person's strengths!

📣 NEW blog with all panel discussions 🎥 👉 http://madebydyslexia.blog/2019/11/08/game-changers-global-summit-2019 Speakers include Richard Branson Virgin Galactic HRH Princess Beatrice & many more

Thanks to the Community Foundation of Burke County for their support of the Burke Augustine Literacy Project!

Grant cycle recipients announced The Community Foundation of Burke County has announced the recipients of the 2019 Community Grant Cycle. CFBC awarded $137,528 in grant funds to the following organizations:

Tutor 1 child; change 2 lives. Thanks to Mandy Hice for her letter to the editor.

Letter to the Editor: Volunteering can change a child’s life October is Dyslexia Awareness Month! Did you know dyslexia is not just reversing letters and/or numbers? There are different types of dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves difficulty

And we wonder why reading is hard for many students!

Phonics vs. Balanced Literacy: A Classroom Comparison Want to know if a K-2 classroom is using explicit, systematic phonics or balanced literacy? This visual illustrates some of the main instructional differences between the two approaches to early reading.

Happy International Literacy Day!

📢 let’s remind everyone that THIS 👇is how we get EVERY child to read. Because the methods that helps help all kids. Pls take our Global Dyslexia Survey here https://bit.ly/2Gf1LXg 📚

If anyone, after watching the CBS Sunday Morning segment on dyslexia, feels inspired to learn more about dyslexia and to help make a difference, we're available to do presentations for groups, large or small, or simply meet for coffee. Just let us know!!

This week on CBS this morning will be MIT Professor Cathy Drennen: "Growing up, Cathy Drennan, who described herself as a "nerdy little kid," landed in the highest reading group at school, only to realize she could not learn to read. Her mother found a specialist and got the diagnosis: Severe dyslexia, an unexpected difficulty in reading in an individual who has the intelligence to read at a much higher level. Yale researchers who have studied hundreds of kindergartners for nearly 40 years say one in five was dyslexic. But perhaps their most important finding: There is no link at all between dyslexia and intelligence. Susan Spencer reports on efforts to help those with dyslexia 'crack the code.'"

This Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning DYSLEXIA! Wonderful MIT Professor Cathy Drennan will be on https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-week-on-sunday-morning-august-25-2019/ Dyslexic Advantage

Dyslexia is...

Thank you, Decoding Dyslexia - California, for this graphic.

We enjoyed training our new tutors this past week. We love learning together! Thanks to all our tutors!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgHDQeZ5QuA

Module 1 - About Dyslexia Film 1 - Celebrities including Sir Richard Branson, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom and Maggie Aderin-Pocock-Pocock join expert teachers from two world leadin...

A “million word gap” for children who aren’t read to at home Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This “million word gap” could be one key in explaining differences in vocabulary and reading development, said Jessica Logan, ...

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There is still time to register for our one week reading training!
August 5-9 from 8-4 each day.
Tutor one child, change two lives!

Do you have 3 hours a week to volunteer? Tutor training August 5-9. Learn Multisensory Reading Techniques. We would love to share more with you about our program that helps students in grades 2-12 that are two years below grade level in reading. Tutor one child but change two lives!

Are you willing to give three hours a week to tutor one child but change two lives forever?

Chad Beam finds his life calling as an educator A strip of gray duct tape divides Chad Beam’s classroom in half. On one side is Norway and the other Denmark. Each country’s flag hangs on the

Thank you for supporting us at our Easter Bunny Breakfast. We had a fabulous crowd and greatly appreciate all who attended and volunteered!

Come out to Friday Friends this morning for a visit with the Easter Bunny and buffet breakfast!

Henry Winkler Describes the Crippling Self-Doubt Caused by His Dyslexia: 'I Thought That I Was Nobody' “I thought I was a nobody my whole life,” Henry Winkler tells PEOPLE

Dyslexia can make an impact on so much more than just reading.

Amen! Why the Burke ALP trains people to tutor one child but change two lives forever. Please consider joining our one week training this summer from August 5-9 in Morganton.

Explicit Phonics Instruction: It's Not Just for Students With Dyslexia Teacher Kyle Redford has long advocated that dyslexic children need specialized instruction in how to decode words. But a recent look at reading research called her to question her stance—and now she says all students should learn this way.