Queen Amie and her tutor Suzanne have been using the Perfect Spelling flash card kit from the Learning Resources bookshelves in the Project Read office. Each card has a vocabulary word with blank spaces in place of some of the letters. The idea of this kit is that the learner tries to figure out the word by filling in the blanks and getting clues from the definition on back. Queen says that she loves figuring out the words and doing follow up exercises with her tutor. She tells us it has helped her build her spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills. Suzanne says that some words have so many blanks, and the definitions can be so unusual, that sometimes neither she nor Queen has any idea what the word is and they have a fun time making a game out of coming up with the correct answer.
The work on these cards, and the increase in her skills, inspired Queen to make a resolution for the New Year. She began studying for the GED. She is using grammar workbooks and will soon explore the Learning Express Library GED online training course available to San Francisco Public Library cardholders through the SFPL website.
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