Omar Tyree's Urban Literacy Project

Well as I was doing some research and looking for ways to strengthen the Literacy Promotes Success program, I came across this great project! Best selling author Omar Tyree designed the Urban Literacy project which offers a new structured way of teaching children in the classroom. The program is based on "Instilling The 5 Key Components of Literacy". The mission of the Urban Literacy Project is to increase the overall literacy rate among urban and other disadvantaged youth and citizens.

One component I will use is the Individualized Spotlight. This basically allows students their own time to read aloud and focuses on goals that they would like to accomplish.  With the Individual Spotlight students will be able to select their medium for reading and build on that selection.  All that really matters is that they are reading. READING IS READING IS READING. It's all about visualization and putting thoughts into motion. WRITING IS WRITING IS WRITING no matter what it is they are writing about.

Check out the Literacy Promotes Success program at http://www.havocusa.com/ to see how we are helping with reading comprehension and building literacy levels with low-income familes and Title 1 schools.