THE RIGHTLY         DIVIDING LITERACY     PROJECT, LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At The Rightly Dividing Literacy Project, we believe that every student has the potential to succeed. That's why we take a personalized approach to learning, tailoring our lessons to each student's unique needs and learning style. Our experienced literacy coaches are passionate about helping students improve their literacy skills and achieve their goals. Join us today and let us help you reach your full potential.

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DR. BRYNDA E. PARKER, PROJECT FOUNDER/CHIEF LITERACY COACH

Educator, Author, Community Leader, Musician, Inspirational Speaker, Lecturer

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THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS

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Upon enrollment in The RDLP, the adult student, the child/youth students and their parents/guardians-if applicable, recognize that the student needs assistance and will assume responsibility for following through on the suggestions for improvement as advised by the Chief Literacy Coach. All individuals who have a vested interest in the student’s literacy sessions must, along with the student, endorse this agreement. Each signature must belong to its owner.

 

Literacy sessions are free and consist of (one)1 hour of literacy that is tailored to address the specific needs of each student. The Literacy Coach will assume responsibility for all applicable forms and supplemental learning materials. The adult students and parents/guardians of children/youth will assume responsibility for the student’s transportation to and from all literacy sessions and RDLP related community activities. Parents/guardians may remain throughout their child’s one-hour literacy coaching session (optional).

 

The age limit is 5 years old to adult. Students are expected to complete all assignments. Incomplete assignments will not be accepted and all assignments must be met with mastery before proceeding to the next level of coaching. Students who complete the (nine) 9 week sessions will receive a special certificate of participation, and may re-enroll for further (nine) 9 week sessions. Records of each student’s personal progress and information will be confidential. Parents/guardians may share information regarding the child’s academic progress, or lack thereof, so as to assist the Chief Literacy Coach in planning for the child’s continual success. The RDLP will not replace the child’s required grade level goals, instead The RDLP will serve as a catalyst of support in scaffolding the areas wherein the student displays an obvious need for reinforcement and mastery of basic reading and writing skills.

 

Students are required to be serious about learning. Each session will begin with a prayer followed by a few seconds for the student, child or adult, to discuss any literacy concerns or challenges. Students must be respectful and cooperative. The Literacy Coach reserves the right to discontinue literacy coaching to any student who displays disrespect or poses probable harm to self or others after having been accepted as a RDLP student. The Literacy Coach reserves the right not to accept applications from anyone of questionable character. The RDLP will not assume responsibility for students who lack progress as a result of the absence of self-investment in personal literacy growth. Individualized Success Plan (ISP) must be realistic, concrete, measurable, and they will be generated by the adult students and/or (legal parents/guardians of children)

 

 

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT READING

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Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz

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"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." – Lena Dunham

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"I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book."

– Benedict Cumberbatch

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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller

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"A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood

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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

– Carl Sagan

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"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte

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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire

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"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." – Maya Angelou

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"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift." – Kate DiCamillo

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"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them." – Emma Thompson

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"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." – John Waters

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"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you." – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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"It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in."

– Naomi Shihab Nye

 

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading." – Susan Sontag

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"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you." – Haruki Murakami

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Source: 80 Inspiring Quotes About Books and Reading. Celadon Books

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FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT WRITING

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“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

– Maya Angelou

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 “If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” – Margaret Atwood

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 “You should write stories because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.” – Annie Proulx

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 “I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be stilled.”

– Sylvia Plath

 

 “If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.” – Terry Brooks

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“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.” – H.G. Wells

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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” – Tom Stoppard

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“The secret of it all is to write… without waiting for a fit time or place.”

– Walt Whitman

“No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” – Charles de Lint

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“Successful writing is one part inspiration and two parts sheer stubbornness.”

– Gillian Flynn

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 “I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick.” – Lois Lowry

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“As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand.” – Ernest Hemingway

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“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.” – Beverly Cleary

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“When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain

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“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Make some light.” – Kate DiCamillo

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Source: 50 Inspirational Quotes on Writing | Barnes & Noble Press Blog (barnesandnoble.com)

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FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING

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“A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool speaks because he has to say something.”
-Plato

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-Horace

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“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”
-Cato The Elder Quotes

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“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
-Plato

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
-Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

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“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
-Benjamin Franklin

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“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”
-Winston Churchill

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“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
-Winston Churchill

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
-Maya Angelou

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
-Mark Twain

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“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.”
-Mark Twain

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“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
-Annie Lennox

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“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.”
-John Maynard Keynes

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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
-D.H. Lawrence

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“If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”
-Gerald R. Ford

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“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
-John Ford

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“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than delivering the eulogy.”
-Jerry Seinfeld

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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
-Jimi Hendrix

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Source: 50 Inspirational Quotes on Writing | Barnes & Noble Press Blog (barnesandnoble.com)

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