Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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Offering
A Helping Hand To English Learners
Almanac
News: 12.15.2018 by Mike Goodkind, with Project Read volunteers and staff
Jason Sugimura, the recently
appointed Project Read-Menlo
Park (PRMP) provisional program manager, often looks across the literacy
group's office and computer lab in the Main Library and thinks he sees the face
of Menlo Park.
"On any day, I might see a
recent arrival to the United States walking in at the same time as a retired
professor from Stanford seeking to broaden their experiences by volunteering.
We're really a microcosm of our community -- from students to seniors,"
said Sugimura, a Bay Area native and career high-tech data analyst.
Five years ago, Sugimura
volunteered in PRMP's computer lab before becoming an English conversation club
facilitator and one-to-one English language literacy tutor. He joined the PRMP
staff in 2015 as its Salesforce.com administrator, gained certification as a
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) instructor in 2016, and
in 2018 became the provisional program manager.
Project Read-Menlo Park was
founded in 1985, and since 2012 alone has supported nearly 750 learners from 56
different countries. READ
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Most of Us Take For Granted That We
Can Read. For Those Who Can’t, This Is A Lifeline
Miami
Herald: 12.17.2018 by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Ronnie Bryant wanted to improve
his reading and writing skills. At 65, he still dreams of getting his GED, a
high school equivalency program, and “maybe even going beyond that.”
Project Literacy for
Every Adult in Dade (LEAD), under the auspices of the Miami-Dade Public
Library System, brought them together. Since 2003, the two have been meeting
almost weekly for about an hour, Legace as tutor, Bryant as adult learner. As
part of the long road to literacy, Bryant is now writing his life story.
“It’s been a challenge,” Bryant
admits of his years-long struggle to improve his literacy skills, “but I love a
challenge.” Along with the satisfaction of improvement, he’s proud that
“another person took the interest to help me learn.”
Ronnie Bryant with his reading
tutor, Rita Lagace. They have been working together through Project Literacy
for Every Adult in Dade.
“He’s become quite good at
reading and comprehension. It’s a great feeling to know that you have in some
way helped someone learn.”
Bryant was once one of an
estimated 36 million U.S. adults who cannot read, write or do basic math above
a third grade level, according to ProLiteracy,
an international nonprofit based in Syracuse, N.Y., that supports programs to
help adults learn to read and write. The group estimates that less than 10
percent of adults in need are receiving services. READ
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Kids To Receive Recordings Of Moms
In Prison Reading To Them For Christmas
The
State: 12.16.2018 by Noah Fett
A select group of inmates at a
South Carolina prison is getting a special Christmas gift — an opportunity to
give something to their children.
Even though these mothers are
currently behind bars, they will get the chance to give their kids a unique
gift, according to a news release from the South
Carolina Department of Corrections.
A
group of “inmate mothers” incarcerated at Graham Correctional Institution in
Columbia have been chosen to participate in the Mother’s Voice program,
the news release said.
That
is where the inmates voices are captured on a recordable book, with mothers
reading a specific story to their children, SCDOC reported in the news release.
The program began at S.C. prisons in 2016, The State previously
reported. READ
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At
Your Library: Thomas Crane Library Literacy Program
QATV:
12.2018 by Joe Catalano
Mary
Diggle joins QATV's Joe Catalano for an interview promoting the Thomas Crane Library Literacy Program
and upcoming orientations on January 3rd & 14th at 10am. LISTEN
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