PURPOSE

• To provide free one-to-one instruction in basic reading skills to adults
• To provide free one-to-one instruction in English to people whose language is other than English
• To identify and train volunteers in the Laubach method of teaching skills.
• To open centers in additional communities in Washington County, Maryland.

Frank C. Laubach, an American missionary, working in the Philippines in the 1930's, developed a method of teaching reading that transformed the teaching of reading to adults around the world. Dr. Laubach realized that, unlike children, functionally illiterate adults have years of experience and large vocabularies; they simply need basic instruction in how to decipher and recognize the spoken word in its written form. The Laubach method is highly structured, emphasizing phonics training in combination with simple word recognition, a system that can, and does, teach any language.

Dr. Laubach's "Each One Teach One" method is used today throughout the world in helping adult tutors teaching other adults how to improve their reading and speaking skills.