Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
Nine so far participating in county jail's GED program
Meadeville Tribune: 5.26.2017 by Keith Gushard
The general education diploma program at the
Crawford County jail has nine active students since it restarted in late March,
according to Kenneth Saulsbery, the jail's warden.
The GED program helps a person obtain a general
education diploma, which is equivalent to a high school diploma.
There are five inmates currently enrolled within
the GED program while another four are in the pre-GED program, Saulsbery told
the Crawford County Prison Board at its meeting Thursday at the jail.
County inmates in the GED program who are released
from jail prior to completing their studies may continue the program through
free classes in Meadville or Titusville offered by the Crawford
County READ Program. The READ Program runs the local adult
runs the local adult literacy program in the
county.
Nine inmates initially were in the GED
program and seven initially were in the pre-GED program when it
restarted, Saulsbery said. READ MORE @
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Don’t Judge a Book by its Movie
Times Record News: 5.27.2017 by Sara Shelton,
Wichita Area Literacy Council
We love our work with the Wichita Adult Literacy
Council, Inc. (WALC) and are eternally grateful for the
opportunity to introduce adults to the world of reading. Since most of our students are developing
readers, they are more interested in skills-based and workplace-use
reading. While classical literature
would resonate with their moral dilemmas and difficult decisions, they do not
have the skills to slog through arcane language and ancient histories. Adult students willing to read novels will
tend to want books that have been made into movies. Unfortunately, they use the movie as the
“real” version and complain the book wasn’t the same.
A former student of mine decided that he and I needed
to read The Hunger Games trilogy. I had
no interest in the series and am not a big fan of angst-ridden young adult (YA)
books, but if my student wants to read, by golly, I do too! The books’ reading level were slightly above
his current level but he discovered how his reading improved because he wanted
to read the material. He pushed himself
and began to see how this affected his reading abilities in other
activities. As an adult reading YA
fiction, he also noticed how the author used language that appealed to the
targeted audience. READ MORE @
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Building a
bridge between languages: Bi-Lingo program debuts at Santa Maria library
Lompoc Record: 5.29.2017 by Krista
Chandler
The first meeting of the Bi-Lingo program, a joint
effort between the Santa Maria Valley Rotaract and the Central
Coast Literacy Council, kicked off Thursday evening at the Santa Maria Public Library.
English- and Spanish-only speakers now have the chance
to practice their conversational skills in each other's languages in a
laid-back, comfortable setting without all the commitment and coursework of
learning a language through a class.
For the first time ever, the Santa Maria Valley
Rotaract Club, the Central Coast Literacy Council and the Santa Maria Public
Library have teamed up to offer the community a fun way to learn a second
language through a program called Bi-Lingo.
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“(It’s) open to the community free of charge primarily
for non-English speakers -- primarily Spanish speaking -- to interact with
fluent English speakers in the community to boost English literacy skills for
everyday situations, such as in schools, the workplace, retail stores,
financial services, transportation hubs and government offices,” she said.
The Bi-Lingo program focuses on a curriculum of basic,
conversational language acquisition for each language, and will feature two to
three topics per event. Each meeting will begin with a permanent topic called
“Greetings” to get participants comfortable with traditional greetings once
they’re out communicating in the public.
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