Hannah Ward, is a special lady trying to tackle the American literacy crisis, with only 60% of American’s being able to read.
She is a homeschooling mother and an English teacher who has taught students from preschool to university.
She says that parents who read, should teach kids phonics and read out aloud together.
As a child, she loved adapting books like Charlotte’s Web into accessible plays with American Sign Language, which sparked the bookworm in her and love for storytelling.
Hannah shares free lessons online to empower literacy worldwide, believing it’s a game-changer for health, poverty, and human growth.
Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:
- Life in the Ozarks
- Growing up as a child actor / singer
- A family curse from 1524
- Creating a family Bible
- Undergoing a double mastectomy
- Are schools unsafe for teachers?
- Why the Homeschooling trend?
- Lack of trust in the school system
- Cocomelon, making kids into Zombies
- Japanese sleep methods for kids
- America’s 60% literacy epidemic
- Teaching kids to love reading
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Your fellow being
Gareth
SHOW NOTES
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Discussion Links
- Movie - Winter's Bone
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- BRCA - breast cancer mutation gene
- Prophylactic Double Mastectomy
- Western Governor's University - WGU
- Minesweeper Game
- CocoMelon - Nursery Rhymes
- Bob Ross Painting
- Reading Rainbow
- Mr Rogers
- Tatami - Japanese Futons
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