Literacy: Spanning North America
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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
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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.”
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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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