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Show I I OVER TWO PER CENT OF CCC ARE ILLITERATE Approximately 10,000 illiterate enrollees In the Civilian Conservation Corp.s have been taught to read and write through the camp eihicational programs since the establishlj ment of the corps, according to a statement made by Howard W. Oxley, director of CCC camp education, in a report forwarded for-warded to the war department September 6, 1936, and transmitted trans-mitted to Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation conserva-tion work. This number represents approximately 2lo per cent of the total enrollment, the report discloses. One of the primary objectives of the educational program is to teach the illiterates illiter-ates in the camps atleast to read and write. Methods used in training them are adapted, to the individual indi-vidual needs of each cnrollee, Mr. Oxley pointed out. The learners begin with words and phrases common to daily life. Stories and news items are read to them. They are then asked to relate or write up this material in their own way. Comics in the newspapers, advertisements in magazines, and signs along the road are used in the teaching process. They contain many words which the illiterate can soon master and associate with objects or activities. As they advance, the men are shown how to express their thoughts in the form of a letter or brief account, Mr. Oxley said. j |