Literacy:
Spanning the U.S.
Read
Santa Clara Shapes Lives Through Literacy Development
Santa
Clara Weekly: 3.25-31.2015 by Cynthia Cheng
For the
last six years, ReJoyce Ross has been a learner at Read
Santa Clara, the city library's free literacy program.
"What
made me come here was that I was cleaning a lady's house and her husband was
there," Ross says. "I was supposed to pull out a special cleaner from
under the cabinet, and I didn't know how to find it because I didn’t know how
to spell it or read it...The husband asked me if I had trouble reading. I said
I did, and he said it was nothing to be ashamed of, that there was a place that
can help me, and that was the library. That was the beginning of my journey.
When I started, I was at the second-grade level of reading."
Today,
Ross, 62, is still a housekeeper, but also employed at a hospital. She enjoys
reading her mail, the Bible and other books. Immensely grateful for the Read
Santa Clara program, Ross pays it forward by volunteering in her community and
speaking to schools and community groups about her reading development. READ
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Volunteers
impact hundreds of lives – including their own
Citizen
Times: 4.10.2015 – Opinion
National Volunteer Week is April 12-18. According to Points of Light (www.pointsoflight.org), this observance encourages individuals and communities
“to be at the center of social change — discovering and actively demonstrating
their collective power to make a difference.”
This
National Volunteer Week, the staff of the Literacy
Council of Buncombe County would like to honor those volunteers who so
often tell us that they get as much out of their experience as do the people
they serve. Literacy Council volunteer tutors often humbly imply that they
volunteer because:
“Volunteering
is exciting. It’s the best two hours of my week.”
“I have
made new friends ... and learned some Spanish. It feels good to help folks
improve their abilities, too.”
“This is
a good fit for me personally — I really am enjoying this.”
“I find
it enjoyable, challenging and rewarding. What more could a volunteer ask for?”
“It’s
been an enriching experience for me and gratifying to see (my student’s)
improvement.”
“I would
be cutting myself off if I decided suddenly not to tutor anymore.” READ
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Project
Read building bridges of literacy and hope
Herald Extra: 4.11.2015 by Debbie Balzotti
Zobeida Escobar,
43, tentatively sits down for the first time with a group of five other adults
who have gathered at the Project Read
offices in the Provo City Library
for their weekly lesson. She is here after being referred to the only literacy
program serving adults in Utah County by her former ESL teacher.
“I can
speak English really well but I can’t write it well and I want to go to UVU to
study business management,” Escobar said. “My testing level is too high for ESL
but I need more help for my English writing. I need to study the grammar and
which words are best to use. It can be very confusing.”
Members
of the group welcomed her and together they read aloud a descriptive passage to
identify adjectives and adverbs and their value in descriptive writing. Escobar
took a deep breath and began reading an excerpt with words like specificity,
mediocre, and generic. READ MORE !
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