{"id":1919,"date":"2024-02-01T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:37:46","slug":"how-literacy-primer-making-and-culture-are-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2024\/02\/01\/how-literacy-primer-making-and-culture-are-related\/","title":{"rendered":"How literacy primer-making and culture are related"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So how did we go about making our literacy primers (learn-to-read books) and readers (reading practice books after each level)?\u00a0 One letter at a time.\u00a0 We started by picking 3 letters, and then we had to write at least 3 sentences only using those letters.\u00a0 After that, we\u2019d add one letter at time, writing more and more sentences with more and more new words per story as the primers progressed.\u00a0 We\u2019d often remark, \u201cOh, if we only had an \u2018e\u2019!\u00a0 That would make our stories so much better.\u201d\u00a0 Then, after we\u2019d have the \u201ce,\u201d we\u2019d look forward to an \u201cm\u201d or an \u201ca\u201d or something.\u00a0 And finally, by the time we got to the end, we could write whatever we wanted with any letters or accents or anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we\u2019d have a new letter that needed new stories to go with it (to practice reading the new letter just taught), we\u2019d often each write a story for it, and then we\u2019d see which were acceptable and we\u2019d use them.  (When we got really good, near the end, we\u2019d have less people writing stories for each letter.)  For one letter, I wrote a story about how our eggs just hatched and we had a bunch of chicks, which my daughter loved ; she swept the broken egg shells up, discarding the little pieces and using the big pieces to decorate the house.  I knew that it was rather \u201cout there\u201d culture-wise for them as I wrote it, but it used the new letter so much that I tried it anyway.  And yes, it was rejected.  They said that I had written it well, but that it was too much \u201cwhite person culture.\u201d  So instead, we used story from one of the local guys.  Let me translate it here for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our village, it\u2019s really hard these days to go out to the bush to go number 2.  If you say that you want to go \u201cto the bush\u201d (aka go number 2), you get up and take the road into the bush.  Once you get out a ways, you look around to make sure that no one is coming.  If no one is coming, you squat and relieve yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before, where you\u2019d have to go to go number 2 wasn\u2019t so far away.  No one went that far away back then.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, you have to go quite a ways out from the village.  But no one likes to go for such a long walk when they have to relieve themselves.  That\u2019s why people now have squatty potties in their courtyards.  No one goes out to the bush to go number 2 anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yeah.\u00a0 For the cultural sensitives of most of you reading this, that story is much more awkward than mine about chicks and decorating your house with chick eggs!\u00a0 But for them, this was totally appropriate.\u00a0 So appropriate, in fact, that they didn\u2019t mind adding a picture (which I will not<\/em> post here for you), and even having me edit the picture to make it look more like it went with the story than it had originally, since it was originally a picture of diarrhea.\u00a0 Yes, culture is different here.\u00a0 And that\u2019s ok in a lot of cases!\u00a0 These are their learn-to-read books, and we want them to feel like they are theirs.\u00a0 So they have a beautiful story about going number 2.\u00a0 Of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how did we go about making our literacy primers (learn-to-read books) and readers (reading practice books after each level)?\u00a0 One letter at a time.\u00a0 We started by picking 3 letters, and then we had to write at least 3 sentences only using those letters.\u00a0 After that, we\u2019d add one letter at time, writing more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}