I bet your brain WILL let you read this sentence well!
Do you remember the messed-up English sentence that was the title of my last blog post? It was to show you the challenge we were facing at our vowel party in Senegal and to ask for your prayers. Now I am here to say thank you for your prayers and that Iʼm safely back home! […]
I bait yoor bren want late you read this saytaynce weill.
Can you read the messed-up English sentence above and understand it? Do you know what I’m trying to say there? I think we can all agree that it has problems. Now imagine if your whole Bible was written like that – it would give very little motivation to try to decipher it, wouldn’t it? I’m […]
How literacy primer-making and culture are related
So how did we go about making our literacy primers (learn-to-read books) and readers (reading practice books after each level)? One letter at a time. We started by picking 3 letters, and then we had to write at least 3 sentences only using those letters. After that, we’d add one letter at time, writing more […]