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Literacy Volunteers host 30th anniversary
celebration
Waldo Village Soup: 4.21.2017
Literacy Volunteers of Waldo County invites
community members to help celebrate its 30th anniversary with a free buffet
meal, documentary and speaker Thursday, May 4, 5:30 to 8 p.m., at Waldo County
Technical Center in Waldo.
The celebration will be an occasion for all who
care about literacy to come together to reflect on the power and pleasure of
reading — be it by gaining fluency and understanding with words, math problems,
computer skills or the English language, according to a press release. In
“Looking Back, Looking Forward,” this event will honor the organization's past
30 years — and the many years ahead — of creating opportunities for learning
partners to come together.
The stories of what tutors and their learning
partners discover together will be shared and celebrated through a video
documentary. Guest speaker Mitch Littlefield will highlight the positive impact
of a student-teacher relationship. Littlefield is the author of “Memories of
Shucking Peas,” a collection of stories written because of the encouragement of
a middle school English teacher. READ MORE @
Literacy program helps local community
SU Flyer: 4.25.2017 by Sawyer Cornelius
The crisis of adult illiteracy in the greater
Salisbury area now faces a new enemy.
The Project
READ program, sponsored by the Wicomico County Public
Libraries, aims to decrease the proportion of illiterate adults within the
local Salisbury and surrounding communities.
Project READ is a free one-on-one literacy program
that assists adults in becoming fluent in basic reading, writing, fundamental
mathematics, health and finance.
“The adult literacy program is an innovation of
one-on-one tutoring in areas of basic writing and math to computer-operation
skills,” Curtis said. “[It] is more effective and tailored to individual
learning styles as opposed to class-like settings.”
The current READ program, launched in September
2016, is the third iteration of several attempts at decreasing the statistic of
Salisbury’s illiterate populous. READ MORE @
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Adult literacy program at Township High
School District 214 acclimates immigrants
Chicago Tribune: 4.26.2017 by Aileen Simons
I recently finished my first session as a volunteer
tutor for Township High School District 214's "Read to Learn:
Adult Literacy Volunteer Program," and it was a fantastic experience.
If you are not familiar with this free,
grant-based program, volunteers are trained to work one on one with adult
learners to help improve their reading abilities and basic skills. It is geared
specifically to adults living in the northwest suburbs of Chicago who read and
write English below the ninth grade level.
Many adult learners are foreign born, where
English is not their native language. Tutors meet with their learners once a
week, for 10 weeks, in the spring and fall. Each individual session lasts
two-and-a-half hours.
In February, I met my learner, Yukiko, who moved
here with her husband and children from Tokyo, Japan. I'm not sure who was more
nervous during the first day that we met but as we began to talk and learn
about each other through sharing pictures on our cellphones, we relaxed.
Each week afterward, it became easier to
communicate as we developed a friendship and worked to achieve her goals of
improving her vocabulary, and becoming more comfortable with basic conversation
skills. Our site supervisor gave us new lessons to work on each week, and I saw
a great deal of progress made from the first week of the session to the last. READ MORE @
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