First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 • FEBRUARY 2015 ADVERtiSinG mAtERiAl SpECiFiCAtionS First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andt Ontario. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. All digital advertising files, whether on disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press department, 204-697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. Please contact your First Nations Voice ad sales rep for details. NEXT ISSUE: March 4, 2015 The advertising deadline is February 15, 2015 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net HoW to ContACt US pUBliSHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDitoR Trevor Greyeyes (204.282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net 100-per-cent First nations owned — Distribution: 100,000 copies No material in First Nations Voice may be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. First Nations Voice is published monthly by the First Nations Voice. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Trevor Greyeyes 204.282-6341. 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 Advertising Sales Laurie Finley, VP Sales and Marketing / laurie.finley@freepress.mb.ca Barb Borden, Manager Niche Publishing/ barb.borden@freepress.mb.ca Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press Reading Recovery is an early intervention program designed to assist children in first grade who are having difficulty learning to read and write. Several First Nation run schools in Manitoba have teachers who are trained in the Reading Recovery program; however, achieving the necessary instruction has not always been easy or convenient … until now. For the first time, there is a Teacher Training Centre run by First Nations for First Nations. It is housed in Peguis Central School and teachers from all across the Interlake now have access to Reading Recovery program training, taught by First Nations teacher leader Gloria Sinclair. "It is the first of its kind, really in all of North America," states Allyson Matczuk of Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning. "There are six Reading Recovery training centres in Manitoba already, but this is the first where everything is entirely First Nations based." Teachers who are in training visit the Reading Recovery Centre twice weekly. In the case of Peguis, there are currently nine teachers from communities such as Fisher River, Jackhead and Riverton enrolled. They learn via lessons and discussions, but also through another effective method. They observe each other conducting Reading Recovery lessons through a one-way glass window. This way, the child who is receiving instruction doesn't feel the intimidation that can come with being watched. Upon completion of the program, teachers are equipped to provide one-to-one tutoring, five days per week, 30 minutes a day to students. The lessons continue until the child can read at or above the class average. "Reading is the foundation that can carry you anywhere, and I truly believe that this program will help to bridge the gaps for First Nations students." Those words, spoken by Peguis Education Director, Carrie Sutherland, sum up well the atmosphere at the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the centre. Many educators, community members and other guests were on hand to mark the auspicious occasion. "It is so important for our people to share the best practices coming out for literacy. And now we can right here at home. Our teachers won't have to travel so far to gain the skills they need," concluded Sutherland. Guests at the ribbon cutting event got to witness these skills first-hand by observing a Reading Recovery lesson. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Reading Recovery is the speed at which children's reading and writing improve. Visitors were told that the student they were about to see, before his Reading Recovery lessons, knew seven letters. He could write his full name, but couldn't tell which was his first and which was his last. He was falling behind and, not surprisingly, was often in the Principal's office for acting out. To see him in action now was nothing short of extraordinary. After only 11, half hour Reading Recovery lessons this remarkable first grader can read full sentences, write full sentences, put words in a correct sequence, answer questions about what he is doing, all with confidence and all while staying focused and engaged. Following the lesson, teacher Gloria Sinclair was very quick to transfer any praise she received onto the student. "It's all him! I just encourage him, he does all the work." And, just like that, a student who may have fallen through the cracks now has the chance to reach his full potential. "First oF its Kind" Centre now open by Kimberly Kakegamic

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