Introduction

Vignette?

Could we use the time Alena walked into class reading a book before we even started class? I just remember the look on all the tutors' faces (and mine!) when we noticed her nose in a book, reading while she was walking....

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Alicia (pseudonym) ambled down the long hallway from the bus into the classroom. She weaved from side to side and kept on walking. Alicia had her nose in a book and had another one under her arm. Her enthrallment with the book kept her from seeing the other students and adults reaction as she kept on reading. One instructor went to her and asked her about her reading. Her comment was, "This is a great book and it is about my life. It is wonderful." She was considered an aliterate student from a large urban highschool and she was hooked on the Bluford High series. She was engrossed, motivated, and eager to finish this book and select another from the Bluford High series. Eventually during this three week literacy camp she had read the majority of the available books and was looking into another series. When she was given the chance to select two books to keep, she went back to the first two books she had read. "These were my favorites." The first step to literacy is the desire to read and Alicia now has that desire.