by websitesca | Mar 8, 2019 | Alberta
Amber Clarke The CanLearn Society is proud to share the story of our PGI Learner Award winner Amber Clarke. When Amber started the 6th grade her teacher identified that she was having difficulties with her reading and making the transition between learning to read and...
by websitesca | Mar 8, 2019 | Alberta
Keith MacDuff The CanLearn Society is proud to share the successes of our PGI Learner Award winner Keith MacDuff. Keith struggled with school and learning and as with many youth in his situation he found himself involved with a rough crowd and potentially heading down...
by websitesca | Mar 8, 2019 | Alberta, Stories and Poems
PGI Canada Learner Award Winner 2016: CanLearn Society Nguissaly Sylla (Sally) is a learner who demonstrates how improving foundational skills can change your life. Sally came from Senegal in 2009. When Sally arrived she did not speak any English, making it hard to...
by websitesca | Mar 8, 2019 | Alberta, Stories and Poems
Worn new, again and again She confronts an object, strange upon the page,and cracks it sound by sound. Slow sibilant,popped plosive, rhotic smile, bowing diphthong,all concluded with a light dental stop:s-p-r-ou-t. A word is a machine fuelled by sound.Disassemble the...