FLC’s Newly-Released Books

Please explore FLC’s newly-released books, Staying Healthy for Beginners and the Staying Healthy for Beginners Teacher’s Guide. We are always excited about helping students in the learning process as well as providing teachers with the most current curriculum. With this health care guide, students won’t feel intimated about the learning process. They will be engaged by Staying Healthy’s basic healthcare vocabulary lists, dialogues, reading and writing exercises. Teachers will be able to teach health literacy in the simplest format for students to understand. Click on the follow link for more information: http://floridaliteracy.org/health_literacy_curriculum.html

Staying Healthy for Beginners Cirriculum PhotoStaying Healthy for Beginners Teacher's Guide Photo

Sharifa Ford – Don’t Forget Our Boys

Jayson ReadingThe word active will always be linked with boys. Roughness is in their nature. They can spend six hours at the park, go home and still want to play video games. Reading seems like it’s never a part of their agenda. My husband and I often say raising our son is the perfect remedy for losing weight. He never lets us sit down. Other parents have said to me that their sons are non-stop, they don’t listen, and it’s impossible to get them to read. My response is, “Boys operate differently than girls; it’s never too late and be patient with them.”

Boys will be boys but eventually they will turn into men. Our boys need our help. They need to know they are loved and as parents, it’s our job to be there for them. They don’t need to constantly hear us YELLING at them for every wrong thing they do. Boys get discourage and need reassurance that they can do anything they put their mind to.

We need to read to them as much as they need to read to us. How can we get our boys to read if they never see us pick up a book, magazine or anything that words are attached to? How do we expect for them to become fluent readers if we don’t lead by example? Family literacy is crucial in America. As parents, we should be accountable for our actions and if we’re struggling, then we  need to ask for help so we can help our children. We need to make sure a cycle of non-readers doesn’t continue. I ask that you try different reading tactics to encourage reading. I had to write my own articles just to make it fun for my son to get excited. He started to read more because I was the author.

Our boys need positive role models whether it’s a man or a woman. If they have a loving environment at home, positive words and we are involved at their school, these types of images can set the tone for a successful reader and improve a struggling one. I have all the girl power in the world, but please: “Don’t Forget Our Boys!”