LIHUE — Elizabeth Scamahorn remembers the day she found a treasure trove buried in a pile of discarded school materials: abridged versions of classic tales. A copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling was among her favorites in the
LIHUE — Elizabeth Scamahorn remembers the day she found a treasure trove buried in a pile of discarded school materials: abridged versions of classic tales.
A copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling was among her favorites in the collection, and the entire thing will be available Saturday during the free Reading Resource Fair at Island School.
“They’re classics. Some of them even still have the old English,” Scamahorn said. “They’ll be in the book swap.”
The Reading Resource Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Games and crafts will be peppered throughout the fair, along with informational booths and display tables. A video will be streaming that gives an overview of dyslexia.
“We’ll have tips, tricks and tactics that even the experts at writing, speaking and reading use when they lose a word,” Scamahorn said.
It happens to many people, she explained, especially as they age.
Scamahorn has been working with students with dyslexia and other learning differences for more than 30 years on Kauai. Her office is in Island School. She is also a board member of the Hawaii International Dyslexia Association, through which she is hosting the reading fair.
The organization also hosts literacy clinics in the summers and throughout the school year on Kauai, which help children and adults target strengths and weaknesses in their communication.
“It’s a crash course in literacy,” Scamahorn said.
The idea for the fair was sparked when Scamahorn was at the September psychic fair, watching people weave around the booths in the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall.
“We have hula fairs and we have psychic fairs and I thought, why not have a reading fair,” Scamahorn said. “Reading, writing and speaking is critical to life.”
