Reading

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Learning is what you do, Reading is how you learn, can you do one without the other?

We often take reading for granted, in deed most of us dont even remember when we first learned to read, however, for many the joy of reading is still a dream, so if you have the opportunity take a look at a few of the worthy programs that assist those that have a desire to learn to read.

Learning to read is one of the most important things you can do and helping someone to learn to read is even more important.

really help if you can, it is more important than you may realize.

Help someone learn to read.

So you want to raise your own crops, do you, want to learn about what its like to farm the land, I can tell you one thing, it is not like they show you in those fancy movies.

Back in the 1930s things were bad, and when the war started up a few years later, times were tough and some of the common things that we used to take for granted were hard to get, like sugar, even milk and creme, but on a farm you could usually get what you wanted by trading what they call today bartering.

If a family had honey, they sometimes would trade for flour or corn meal, trading was a big part of life and you know what, people actually helped each other back then, if someone was sick they went and did for them.

In so many ways farming life, was the only life most kids my age knew, at least in corn country things hardly ever changed.

We learned more in one summer than many people learned in a life time.

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How could a thing of iron and steel become so important to our survival, when your a kid on a farm your protected from the world, at least as much as you can be protected.

In a time where everything was rationed, even sugar, that old tractor, saved us more than once.

Life is full of surprises, so often we never think about the more important things in life until it is far too late, I suspect that may be something our parents want to see happen, in many ways it is a good thing, in other ways when it is time, you are never really prepared.

When you are young you tend to remember the good times in life, your first swim in the blue hole, the first time you did something so right your dad was proud of you, these times are the shinning times in our lives and will never be forgotten, but there are also times that can be just as memorable but perhaps not as lofty or as filled with pleasure.

Heat in the south is a well told joke, but it is also a serious problem, if your not prepared, because the heat will burn you up.

Hotter than the fourth of July, man that year it was hot, in fact we had a lot of jokes about the heat.

you can eat hot pepper to cool your mouth off.

A seat best makes a fairly good branding iron.

Cows give evaporated milk.

Now that is hot, but I can tell you that summer it was hot, I mean it was really hot, you had to drink lots of water, or you would end up passed out and that was not a fun thing to do, trust me on that, after spending one hot friday afternoon in a tub of water felling like I was about to die, after that I always had plenty of water with me.

On the Farm you Eat what you grow, often that meant, Some of the best Breakfast you can imagine.

Fresh Baked Biscuits, Eggs, Grits, Bacon, Sausage, and our Favorite, Tomato Gravy, never tried it then you are not
a farm boy, at least in the mid west, or south west, That tangy flavor, on a hot buttered biscuit, you cant beat it.

From Dawn to days end, work was never hard to find.

Country life, farm life, it was all he knew from as early as he could remember his family had been farming.

You may have heard the song a country boy can survive, well it is true, a truer song was never written, these days, you can get robbed in a min, and it does not matter how much or how little you have, because the police are rarely right there when you need them, because there are too few of them.

The Urban areas are not as safe as they used to be, even for those that live there, but just two days until thanksgiving, one year, the phone rang, it was the worst possible news, but at that time I did not yet know it nor would I have believed it.

Growing up on a farm is not like growing up in the city, in fact, as the first member of my family to go to college, I later learned that growing up in the country, might actually help a man survive difficult situations.

There was always something exciting about a tractor, as a kid, you would look at that monster of iron and you were both afraid and in wonder at the same time, I know it might sound strange to someone who has never been on a farm or been a part of something like a farm, but a tractor, to a boy growing up, is like a tool in the hands of a skilled craftsman, learning how to use a tractor is every farm boys dream, at least it was for this one.

It was an 8 N ford tractor manufactured in 1949 and it smoked every time it was started up, but it did its job day after day never complaining it remained a thing of iron and grease.

Everything was there even the attachments, a bush hog, box blade, even a double plow and a bucket too. Every thing you would need to make a road and more.

I remember seeing my dad running that same tractor, cutting grass or spreading gravel, it was something he enjoyed doing working with tools and the power of that old ford tractor.

It was years later, when I saw that old tractor again, and things were not the same as the last time I saw it, a tarp covered, it and it started, smoking as usual, the clutch was worn, and probably needed replacing.

I took stock of the tractor and held the keys in my hand, wondering about so many things that remained unanswered.

There was a sadness about the old thing, a sort of unused dust had settled around the controls, a mild amount of rust was present on the seat and the steering wheel was old and had some cracks in it.

Later I found a new steering wheel, it way just lying, on top of a table in the garage, it was one of the things that he meant to get around to doing but never did, when I saw it I quietly thought to myself that I would fix this tractor and make it whole again and I didnt care what the cost was I would do it.

yes, and why not, it was after all one of the things that makes us uniquely, American, tradition.

Tradition is important to farming families, all over the world, it is something more than just a theory or a thought, it is a will to survive, a need to fulfill promises made, and the best things that we are, we must preserve, so it was more than just a tractor, it was a way of life, that old tractor, was about to be brought back to life.

The story is one that is an ongoing thing it is almost alive, as I tell it, I realize all the things that are really important as life so quickly moves around us, there are some that find a way to see beyond the next work day, they find an escape, from the trap that is an ever revolving merry go round.

The music turns and turns, and where it stops no body knows…

One thing remains, the iron and the fields, they always remain…

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What if you spent a few min of time learning how to read better, by understanding more of what you read.

What if you took a little more time out of your day and helped someone learn something new.

That may sound a little different, however, in many cases, people who do not read frequently may have difficulty actually understanding what they are reading.

Did you know that when you are alert, that you can learn as much as 50 percent faster than when your not paying attention.

Understanding what you read, have you ever been reading a book and suddenly you realize that the page is getting blurry, and that all though you have read the last paragraph more than once you just have not really understood what your reading, in fact you have just fallen asleep at the wheel, a term adapted for this article, but apt none the less.

Understanding is more important than you may realize, reading comprehension is about the most important part of what your doing when you read.

Reading and understanding what you read, is not only the ability to read quickly and accurately,
but also to understand what you are reading.

A person with good reading fluency is able to understand more because they can better understand and instantly recognize words. Doing this quickly improves your brain power for understanding what is actually being read. Good reading fluency will help people learn more and excel at school or on the job. It is common for people to struggle with reading fluency. There are, however, specific training programs that allow an individual to strengthen their reading fluency.

An individual struggling with complete fluency can be an extremely frustrating experience with learning, mostly because they have to spend extra time trying to understand what they are reading. This can negatively impact people in a school or professional work setting. When a person struggling with reading fluency reads out loud their reading will typically be slow, choppy, and without natural expression.

Besides having difficulty reading aloud an individual who struggles with reading fluency may also notice that they identify words in a list well, but they can’t read the same words fluently in a phrase. It is vital that you help students move from word recognition in isolation to reading fluency in context. This can be accomplished with the proper testing, training, and practice.

The National Institute for Literacy said on their website that, “Repeated and monitored oral reading improves reading fluency and overall reading achievement.” This is one of the two steps researched by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The second step they found for improved reading fluency is silent reading done independently by the students. Practice is one of the key factors to an improvement in reading fluency.

Fluency is defined as “Ease in the ability of reading.”

In 1995 the NAEP found that 44% of United States fourth graders were on the lower end of the fluency scale.

This is disturbing to say the least and it is really bad.

The study also confirmed that reading fluency and reading comprehension are directly related to each other but they also are defined in other terms that are also equally disturbing.

It has been established that many classrooms in the USA neglect to teach or train students to become more fluent readers.

This in turn affects student’s reading comprehension in the present and carries over later in life.

To help your child or a loved one become a more fluent reader it is important to have them take a simple reading fluency test at a quality learning training center.

This test will help you understand their strengths and weaknesses in fluency.

After the test the learning training center can put together a plan of action for helping to improve the reading fluency.

This includes having your child receive professional feedback on their reading but more importantly the feedback really needs to be done in such a way that praise is the goal.

This training process has proven to help improve reading fluency for a lifetime.=

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Something Borrowed

Is this a real story? and if it is,

What Happened to the real Huguette?    is she really alive or should we say is he really alive.

Was she or he Murdered and replaced by someone else?

Is there more to this story than what we know now?

Is she really alive or is an impostor in her place?

Allegedly this could be a criminal case that law enforcement needs to look into…

In a recent story about an Heiress, who apparently has no one and has been taken advantage of allegedly for years, yet still lives in a small sparsely furnished room, in what years ago would be considered a sanitarium.

The tale of her life would take many years to tell we may never know the true extent of her influence and more importantly what has been done in her name.  What kind of a life has she lived in this hospital and more importantly is she being treated fairly, is this humane treatment or is there something diabolical at work here behind the scenes.

Some of what we know, is that that she is 104 years old and is the sole heir to three separate estates that in today’s standards would be considered very old money.

It has also been reported that she is in New York City at a hospital, but is this true or is it just part of the Hoax?

Why are the pictures so different, in several we see an obvious picture of a woman, but in others we see something very different.

There are few pictures of this person, (more on that in a few shorts)  but the real story here may not be in the past but in the present.

Who is taking care of this woman and could this all be a hoax?   A staged and planned story or is there a more sinister past that may suddenly come to light what happened to her sister that years later she created several projects in her name?

There are a lot of things about this story that do not make sense, or perhaps they just dont add up, one of the first things I noticed was that the two pictures below are very very different, it could be that these two are related, but for sure something is off about the two photos.  have a close look and think about the two pictures, one is definitely female.   But the other one, I am not entirely sure about, because the image on the right is very feminine, you can see the outline of her figure.

The one on the right on the other hand is very much different, in fact it looks rather manly.

Take a look at the two photos below.

Mystery or Hoax

So, if you examine some of the photographs here and in other publications, you might begin to notice that the earlier photos of this

woman, in fact might not be at all whom they say they are, could this be a hoax?

Naturally this would be a huge hoax, or perhaps just the one photo and the girl was real at one time, but for what ever reason, someone has been living as this woman but is actually a man?   No one knows for sure but this is really strange.

It is a mystery…