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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1984
Page
16
Children learn math and spelling through daily chores at North Frederick Elementary during Accept and Challenge Week. Pat Amass guides parents to use rooms from bedroom to kitchen for counting, weighing, measuring and classification activities enhancing basic skills with common household items.
Ethel Wadlinger and Charlotte Thompson lead a Laubach Literacy Action program at Camp Hill, turning inmates into a literacy council for the first time in the country. Since 1981 they have taught about 40 prisoners, with former students pursuing higher education and literacy roles. The effort shifts state prison education to Laubach methods, emphasizing reading, writing, and practical life skills.
Carroll County Chapter I coordinator Pat Amass says a telephone, laundry pile, paper plate and egg carton can teach children basic math and word skills. Richard T. Meagher captured the scene.
Ralph Wallenhorst, a lifelong storyteller and former reporter, speaks to South Davis Elementary School about preserving traditional stories. He argues television and flashy superheroes dull imagination, urging use of fairy tales and folk tales to teach real life lessons and human relations.
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