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The Essential Agreement of the Classroom
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AARP Experience Corps Seeks Volunteers in Chicago: Help Kids Learn to Read!
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Experience Corps Chicago Driven by Passionate Latino Leaders
AARP Experience Corps Chicago aims to improve child literacy rates among young Chicago Latinos. As the office gears to open in March, Myrna Torres takes her position as Experience Corps Chicago’s new...
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A Handy Trick for Learning to Read
“Aoccdrning to rscheearch…” We all bring different experiences and backgrounds to our reading. Our comprehension skills, vocabulary and language fluency all factor into what we take away from the...
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Building a Story – The Roles of Authors and Illustrators
Every story has a beginning, middle and end. And in the details of that telling, we can be transported to times and places that fill us with a range of emotions – from wonder, hope and, mirth – to...
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“The Gasp” and the Growth of a Child
My elementary school kids desperately want to please their teacher. So much so, they frequently let their emotions get the better of them. Actually it’s daily. And here’s how I know: Each and every...
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AARP Experience Corps: Working with Kids Yields Rewards
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Spend Some Time With a Young Person
While the fond memories of family and festivities are still fresh enough to make us smile, let’s commit to spending time with family, friends and loved ones beyond the holidays. And, in the year ahead,...
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A Tutoring Adventure With AARP Experience Corps
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Help Your Grandchildren Keep Learning This Summer
This summer, AARP Foundation Experience Corps and PBS KIDS are collaborating to help prevent learning loss. Reyna Vite (left), Moscone Elementary parent liaison, with Alejandro Teran, his daughter...
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What They Saw in Me
When I was 8 years old, my teacher told my parents that I was failing third grade, that I was mentally retarded (a label used frequently in those days) and that I was essentially unteachable....
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AARP Experience Corps Seeks Volunteers in Chicago: Help Kids Learn to Read!
Experience Corps is hosting a series of community conversations in Chicago with AARP members and the general 50+ public from Jan. 18 through Feb. 16. The conversations, which are scheduled for about...
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Experience Corps Chicago Driven by Passionate Latino Leaders
AARP Experience Corps Chicago aims to improve child literacy rates among young Chicago Latinos. As the office gears to open in March, Myrna Torres takes her position as Experience Corps Chicago’s new...
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A Handy Trick for Learning to Read
“Aoccdrning to rscheearch…” We all bring different experiences and backgrounds to our reading. Our comprehension skills, vocabulary and language fluency all factor into what we take away from the...
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Building a Story – The Roles of Authors and Illustrators
Every story has a beginning, middle and end. And in the details of that telling, we can be transported to times and places that fill us with a range of emotions – from wonder, hope and, mirth – to...
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“The Gasp” and the Growth of a Child
My elementary school kids desperately want to please their teacher. So much so, they frequently let their emotions get the better of them. Actually it’s daily. And here’s how I know: Each and every...
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AARP Experience Corps: Working with Kids Yields Rewards
Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Who Win with Experience Corps In 2007, a Washington University research study confirmed what volunteers have been consistently saying all along. AARP Experience Corps...
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Spend Some Time With a Young Person
While the fond memories of family and festivities are still fresh enough to make us smile, let’s commit to spending time with family, friends and loved ones beyond the holidays. And, in the year ahead,...
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A Tutoring Adventure With AARP Experience Corps
AARP Experience Corps volunteer Beth Dugan helps a kindergartner learn letters and sounds. Beth Dugan, 58, loved volunteering at her kids’ elementary school. Now that her kids are adults she wanted to...
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Help Your Grandchildren Keep Learning This Summer
This summer, AARP Foundation Experience Corps and PBS KIDS are collaborating to help prevent learning loss. Reyna Vite (left), Moscone Elementary parent liaison, with Alejandro Teran, his daughter...
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