[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: [EXT] Re: National Family Literacy Month in U.S.A.

Thu Nov 5 21:56:15 GMT 2020

Amen! Ditto! Me too!
My way of echoing the previous sentiments of my colleagues, for both Tom's
steadfast contributions and healing.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:47 PM Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at u.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I echo Shirley's and Brian's sentiments.
> Dear Tom....   I have long appreciated your beliefs about the
> intersections among parent and child education
> being linked in powerful ways.  And thanks for encouraging me to reread
> once again Huey's important work and sharing
> his quotes and wisdom.  Here's to the emergence of a new normal sooner
> rather than later.           Yetta
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:54 PM Shirley B Heath <sbheath at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
>
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>> I echo that sentiment, for he has taught us all so very much over the
>> year,s and, Brian, it is wonderful that you step forward to remind us to
>> say THANK YOU, Tom!
>>
>> Best to all in this contentious time in the STates.  I don't know about
>> all of you, but I am so tired of hearing folks say "our nation is so
>> divided."  We need a healer, and we do not need more blanket pronouncements
>> regarding what we all know!
>>
>> With hope,
>>
>> Shirley
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>> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
>> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Brian
>> Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 4, 2020 9:30 AM
>> *To:* Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
>> Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: National Family Literacy Month in
>> U.S.A.
>>
>> Thanks Tom.
>> Your scholarship and passion for your professional area of expertise is
>> much appreciated by me anbd many of my Aussie colleagues.
>>  Brian Cambourne
>>
>> On 5 Nov 2020, at 3:57 am, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Colleagues: November 2020 is National Family Literacy Month, a month to
>> learn about the role of adult literacy education in the development of
>> family literacy. The Adult Education and Literacy system (AELS) of the
>> United States helps adults learn to read and gain the confidence to use
>> their reading skills for the development of their family’s literacy.
>>
>> An early expression of the common sense idea that reading ability is based
>> on the earlier acquired ability to listen to and speak (oracy) the native
>> oral language is found in 1908 in Edmund Burke Huey’s classic book, “The
>> Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading.” In this book Huey wrote about the
>> relationship of oral to written language and said, “The child comes to his
>> first reader with his habits of spoken language fairly well formed, and
>> these habits grow more deeply set with every year. His meanings inhere in
>> this spoken language and belong but secondarily to the printed symbol.”
>>
>> The use of oracy to promote interest in and the achievement of literacy
>> has a long history. Huey made the point that “meaning inheres in this
>> spoken language and belongs but secondarily to the printed symbols.” He
>> also commented on the importance of parents reading to their children,
>> saying “The secret of it all lies in the parent’s reading aloud to and with
>> the child".
>>
>> For learning more about the relationships among oracy and literacy skills
>> and the contributions  of adult oracy and literacy education to family
>> literacy during this special month,  you can download my report entitled
>> “From Oracy to Literacy and Back Again: Investing in the Education of
>> Adults To Improve the Educability of Children.’ Available online at:
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024919_From_Oracy_to_Literacy_and_Back_Again_Investing_in_the_Education_of_Adults_To_Improve_the_Educability_of_Children
>>
>> For a paper on providing adult education for improving family literacy
>> see Sticht (2011): ‘Getting It Right From the Start: The Case for Early
>> Parenthood Education” from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (
>> https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ943722). In 1908, Huey wrote, "The school of
>> the future will have as one of its important duties the instruction of
>> parents in the means of assisting the child's natural learning in the
>> home."
>>
>> Today, a substantial body of scientific evidence supports Huey's call for
>> the instruction of parents in the means of improving children's learning at
>> home, and therefore their learning at school. The results of studies of
>> major early childhood education programs suggest that much of the long-term
>> academic and social outcomes of early childhood education result not so
>> much from the direct education of the children, but rather from education
>> provided to highly disadvantaged parents. Changes in parenting help explain
>> why relatively short-term education programs for children could sustain
>> them through school, and into adulthood. Better parenting provides a
>> long-term educational intervention for children.
>>
>> As Huey understood 112 years ago--and cognitive scientists have since
>> demonstrated--literacy follows oracy, so parents who foster their young
>> children's listening, speaking, vocabulary, and knowledge development are
>> also fostering success in school.  As noted earlier,  investments in the
>> education of adults increases the educability of their children, and that
>> is yet another reason to celebrate National Family Literacy Month this
>> November of 2020!!
>>
>> Tom Sticht
>>
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