Local educator assists service club in project for families of children with learning disabilities
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During the past school year, local educator Joy Wilsted has been teaching the parents and grandparents of learning disabled children how to make reading fun at home, as well as developing these children’s reading skills.
Mrs. Wilsted was the presenter at three North Kansas City and Park Hill schools, which held a reading night called PALS. PALS stands for Parents Assisting Learners and for Pilots Assisting Learners. The Northland Pilot Club is a service club which obtained a grant from the Pilot International Foundation to sponsor PALS. Cathy Dye of Lake Viking is a past president of the Northland Pilot Club.
Each child who attends PALS receives a quality children’s book which Mrs. Wilsted uses to demonstrate five reading strategies which evolved while she taught reading. The parents receive the book Now Johnny CAN Learn to Read, a book written to assist parents and teachers in using the five reading strategies modeled at PALS.
The following is a comment by a parent who attended PALS: “It gave me ideas for helping not only my third graders but my fifth grader. I will use ORP (one of the reading strategies). I think it will help because my child won’t get so frustrated. She was very excited about reading. She loved showing me she knows the words.”