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| Wyoming prisons use unique program to better inmate literacy |
| By gillettenewsrecord.com- Seth Klamann |
| Published: 07/06/2017 |
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming inmates are learning to read English and Latin through a program originally designed for younger students with dyslexia. Over the past year, more than a dozen Wyoming Department of Corrections officials were trained by the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education of Orton-Gillingham, a Michigan-based organization that advocates a phonics-based teaching style. The idea is to break down language and understand the composition of words, rather than memorizing spellings and meanings, said Jean Rishel, the lead trainer for IMSE who trained the corrections officials. "Sixty to 70 percent of English is based on Latin and Greek," she explained. "We trained the instructors in how to teach basically suffixes and prefixes and how to start. So they can help their adult population, not just with single words, but with multi-syllabic" words. For example, she said she has a lesson for the word hydrophobic. It's a long, technical-sounding word, but it becomes more approachable, especially to less advanced readers, when it's broken down into its prefix (hydro, or water) and its suffix (phobic, or having fear of). Another example is unpredictable. It's easy enough to break down: un (not) — pre (before) — dict (say) — able (capable of). Read More. |
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