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Kanawha literacy group training ESL tutors for free

WV Gazette Mail: 8.12.2017

To help with the increased demand of English as a Second Language students, the Literacy Volunteers of Kanawha County is offering training for tutors.

“We’ve been around for more than 30 years,” said Susan Leffler, vice president of the board. “We teach reading, writing and skills to teach literacy. We seem to be having an influx of immigrants reaching out to us interested in ESL.”

Leffler said the program has about 24 students, with roughly half of them ESL students, and they anticipate more will come.

Tutors in the program work one-on-one with their students. There are, however, occasional exceptions for couples or families, Leffler said.

“We try to meet the individual needs of our students,” she said. “Usually it’s one-on-one. We meet people in a public space with a private space, like the library.”  READ MORE @

Adult Literacy Program Finds New Life In Hartford Public Library

Courant Community: 8.14.2017 by Vinny Vella

The last thing Mark Purcell wanted to do was go back on his word. Not to anyone, but especially not to adults who fought to overcome stigma and self-doubt.

"Two years ago, at the YMCA, we promised people a program," Purcell, the program facilitator for Read To Succeed, said last week. "And unlike other groups in this state, when we make a promise, we're going to fulfill it."

Read To Succeed, an adult-literacy program with three decades of history, lost its home in June 2016 when it was shuttered by the Greater Hartford YMCA during its move out of the XL Center. Today, it thrives, having migrated under the fold of the Hartford Public Library.

Following the migration, the program set up shop in the downtown library branch. Construction from the incoming University of Connecticut campus displaced the program a second time after a few months.

They've found a permanent home in the library's Mark Twain branch in Asylum Hill, operating three days a week, along with the branch itself.  READ MORE @

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Literacy DuPage

NCTV 17: 8.14.2017

Literacy DuPage is dedicated to equipping those adults who cannot understand, speak, read, or write English with the language skills they need. They provide volunteer tutors with the materials, techniques, and confidence they need to sit side-by-side with adults who want to learn English in DuPage County.

Tutors do not need any prior experience teaching; nor do they need to speak another language. Literacy DuPage will match tutors with an adult who wants to learn English and the learner and tutor then decide on a convenient meeting time and place – often at the local library or at a learner’s place of employment.  WATCH