New Phone line for ALIDA
Starting September 1st, ALIDA will have a phone line. Greengate School in Huntsville has volunteered to be home base for the phone line. The Greengate Staff will answer the ALIDA line and refer calls to ALIDA members. The phone number is:
256-551-1442.
by Angie Hood
Cynthia M. Stowe, author of the widely appreciated HOW TO REACH AND TEACH CHILDREN AND TEENS WITH DYSLEXIA ,had one last book publsihed before her death in 2004. The book is THE SECOND ESCAPE OF ARTHUR COOPER
The book, aimed at 4th through 6th graders, is a fictional account of a young girl and her family helping real person Arthur Cooper, a runaway slave who escaped Virginia as a boy. Slave catchers are still after him when they come to Nantucket in 1822 but now Arthur has a wife and children to protect. Young Phebe Folger has her own problems, but she and her family help Arthur Cooper and his wife and children, whom they have come to love as friends.
Besides worrying about her bedridden, injured mother, Phebe has problems with school. �The numbers and the letters hadn�t made sense today. Not that they ever did.�
Phebe�s older sister Lydia is ashamed of her younger sister being unable to read and tries to help Phebe �see� the letters one day after school. Lydia tried to get Phebe to �see� the letter �O� by tracing her finger over a scrap of yarn twisted into a circle.
With Lydia helping Phebe every day after school, Phebe thinks some of the letters were starting to make sense but she still couldn�t put them together.
While Phebe is fighting her problem with school, her mother is struggling to recover from a back injury sustained during a fall from a carriage, and the slave catchers have come to Nantucket looking for family friend Arthur Cooper. Phebe�s family and other Quakers in their meeting work to hide the Coopers from the Slave catchers.
I think this would be a great book to read with your dyslexic child, to show them that kids have been having problems with reading through the years, and that they can still have an important role to play in life.