I have a great site for children and English! Www.starfall.com Will ask around about adult sites as I work with second language learners. Linda Eberle
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Mike Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Educators, > > We are preparing to get ready for the first school in Afghanistan to > receive XO laptops here in Jalalabad. Literacy here is a relatively > high 60% as far as I can find out - nationwide it's more like 70-80% > illiteracy. > > We were hoping that when the kids go to sleep at home that we can find > something to help adults learn literacy as well as other skills, but > without the literacy the others of course shall be far more > difficult... > > I have seen: > > free-reading.net - web based research based literacy activities - > seems to have no internationalization and is exclusively for K-3 > children > litnow.org - seems to have exactly the right objective, but I can't > find any hint of any actual software... I have sent in the contact > form and will see what (if anything) comes back. > > There is quite a lot of literacy related traditional (paper) based > materials around here - so getting the ingredients should not be > difficult. If anyone knows of anything that might meet this or anyone > interested in working together to start something like that please let > us know... > > Thanks/Regards, > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > Educators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators
