Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Literacy – Spanning North America :: San Diego CA :: Ventura Co CA :: Canada


Literacy: Spanning North America      

San Diego Council on Literacy
WS Radio: 1.19.2018 by Drew Schlosberg

Guest 2: Jose Cruz, CEO of the San Diego Council on Literacy, is joined by his Board Chair, Nora Kenney-Whitley, and John Corcoran, author of The Reading Gap: Journey to Answers, to discuss the important work of the Council over the past 30+ years to make San Diego a literate region.
Corcoran, discusses the motivation behind his third book, while Kenney-Whitley talks about how literacy is being redefined in academia.  LISTEN

Tutors needed in Ventura County to help adults learn English
Ventura County Star: 1.24.2018 by Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Susan Franzblau furrowed her eyebrows, heaved up her shoulders and pouted sullenly in the direction of her students.

"Angry?" one student inquired.

"Say the whole sentence," Franzblau replied.

"I …am …angry," the student said cautiously, pausing between each word.

"Are you?" Franzblau asked, her face relaxing into a smirk.

"No," the student giggled.

It was a Wednesday morning at the Albert H. Soliz Library in the El Rio neighborhood of Oxnard, and Franzblau, a lively retiree from Port Hueneme, was teaching a small group of Spanish-speaking students how to express emotions in English. The former psychology professor offers the classes every week and also tutors at her house, not because she gets paid to do it — she doesn't — but because she loves to teach.

Franzblau and about 80 other volunteers teach English as a second language to adults as members of Laubach Literacy of Ventura County. The nonprofit began as an international organization founded by a missionary, Frank Laubach, in 1955. Today, the local branch is affiliated with ProLiteracy, an adult literacy organization based in Syracuse, New York. Laubach Literacy has been serving Ventura County for more than 40 years.  READ MORE >>

Canadian Families Learn Together for the Largest Family Literacy Celebration
Community Wire: 1.25.2018 by Canada on Family Literacy Day


On Saturday, January 27, ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC) will celebrate the 19th anniversary of Family Literacy Day® (FLD) with community organizations, schools, libraries, learning centres and families across the country. Family Literacy Day raises awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family.

“Parents are our first and best teachers,” said Mack Rogers, ABC Life Literacy Canada’s Executive Director. “Improving literacy skills and inspiring a love of lifelong learning is what Family Literacy Day is all about. We’re so pleased to see the enthusiasm with which Canada supports Family Literacy Day year after year and from coast to coast to coast.”

Family Literacy Day was launched in 1999 by ABC and takes place on January 27 every year with family-friendly literacy and learning events across the country. Since 2016, ABC has been honoured to work with award-winning Canadian author and illustrator Barbara Reid as the Honourary Chair of Family Literacy Day. This year, Reid attended ABC’s flagship event leading up to FLD at the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, where she taught families how to create pictures in her signature modelling clay style. She also created a special FLD activity sheet using modelling clay illustrations.  READ MORE >>

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