Dear editor,
Yes, First-Time Readers is a newspaper that most people can read and enjoy. When I read it with very little effort, it turned out to be very enjoyable. This proves that a newspaper can be entertaining and inform us as to what is going on in our province.

The paper covers a wide range of stories and even has a little humor such as A Wonderful Month.

As for this reader I lift my hat to the college and wish them a lot of luck in the future.

- Paul Walsh

Dear editor,
I liked Clane's story because he is like me. I could read, but not very much. I had to jump over a lot of words. and then the story didn't make any sense. I had to ask my mother to sign my cheques.

Now I can sign my own cheques. I can read a book, which I never could do before. I am now reading my twelfth novel and I am reading without a hitch.

- Austin Price

Resources

This column isn't about natural resources like minerals or fish or trees. It's about learning resources such as books. Readers are invited to recommend learning materials for review.

We are looking for materials that would be of special interest to adult learners.

Kevin Major is a Newfoundland author. He was born at Stephenville in 1949. Mr. Major has written several books. Most of these books are about Newfoundland. His first novel was caller Holdfast. His second novel was called Far From Shore. Another book by Kevin Major is called Blood Red Ochre. That book is about the Beothuck Indians.

Kevin Major’s latest book is called No Man’s Land. It is a novel about the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. This battle took place on July 1, 1916 during the First World War. The main character in the book is Allan Hayward, a young officer in the Newfoundland Regiment. Seven hundred and seventy-eight Newfoundlanders “went over the top” in the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. The next morning, only 68 answered the roll call.

While he was researching the book, Kevin Major talked with Walter Tobin. Mr. Tobin was the last survivor of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. He died on September 15 of this year.

The Danger Tree is another book about Newfoundlanders who went to war. The author of The Danger Tree is David McFarlane. The book is non-ficiton, but it reads like a novel.

The Danger Tree follows the Goodyears who served in World War I. The book tells what it might be like for these young men as they went into battle. The book also contains a lot of interesting stories about what life useed to be like in Newfoundland.

A new computer program is helping students learn to read and write. The program is called SARAW. SARAW is short for Speech Assisted Reading and Writing.

SARAW can read a letter, word or complete story. It has word learning games and is fun to use. The program can be used by students with physical disabilities.

Learners at the Placentia Campus of Eastern College enjoy using the program.

Gerry O’Reilly says, “I’m getting the hang of the computer now. I use it every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I mostly do the fill-in word. It could be two letters or it could be one letter that is missing. I wrote one story about a hurricane and the computer read it to me. I like to use the computer.”

Barbara Linehan also like to use the computer. She says, “I like writing stories on it. When I make a mistake, the computer reads it back to me.”