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Constructing an Appalachian Alphabet

Early Childhood
By Lynn Hill, posted on Apr 1, 2019

The Appalachian Alphabet project grew out of my desire to address the literacy issues I saw in many of the children. Often younger children in our program were disinterested in books, and it was not unusual for the eight- to seventeen-year-olds to tell me they couldn’t read. The children seemed inspired to address this problem.

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