This sounds like a smart and fun way to learn a language. DP
By SANDY CULLEN
madison.com: How does a local family literacy program continue without the federal dollars that helped create and sustain it for more than a decade?
In a word: S-c-r-a-b-b-l-e.
Madison Family Literacy — which helps poor families develop literacy skills and prepare their children for kindergarten — is hoping to raise $50,000 with an all-city/all-campus Scrabble tournament.
The two-day tournament, centered around the popular board game in which dueling wordsmiths arrange random letters into words crossword fashion, will take place Feb. 23-24 at Hilldale Shopping Center. Live bands and other activities also will be featured during what organizers hope will spell "a big, fun event" that will become an annual fundraiser.
"It's promoting literacy, wordplay," said Patricia La Cross, who coordinates the East Madison program based at the Northport/Packer Community Learning Center.
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