Literacy: Spanning the US
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Read To Succeed Receives 2 $10K Grants
From the Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Murfreesboro
Voice: 5.21.2020 by
The Dollar General
Literacy Foundation recently awarded Read To Succeed two grants, a $10,000
grant to support Youth & Family Literacy and a $10,000 grant to support
Adult Literacy. These local grants are part of more than $8.6 million in grants
awarded to more than 950 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the
communities Dollar General serves.
“Read To Succeed is so grateful
for the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. We both have the same goal and that
is to change the trajectory of individuals in our community through literacy,”
RTS Director Jolene Radnoti said.
Read To Succeed’s Family
Literacy Program serves the child and family. With two key programs offered in
collaboration with Rutherford County and Murfreesboro City, Head Start and
support summer Community Summer Camps; Read To Succeed aims to bring the family
together to celebrate literacy along with the JOY of reading. Family Literacy
Events are conducted throughout the school year in partnership with local
universities in our local elementary schools. Imagination Station events are
held in collaboration with Community Development Institute Mid-Cumberland Head
Start sites in Rutherford County.
The Adult Literacy Program
works with adults 18 years-of-age and older to provide one-on-one tutoring in
basic literacy at no cost to the learner.
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Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 13
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 18-19 yrs. old
(college level entry)
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Literacy Volunteers Seeks Tutors
For Online Outreach Program
Tifton
Gazette: 5.23.2020 by Mary Beth Yeary
Literacy
Volunteers of Tifton-Tift County is looking for volunteers to be tutors in
their online outreach program this summer. The online outreach program is for
those who need to improve their literacy skills or study for the GED exams.
Bonnie Sayles, executive
director of LVTTC, said the organization works closely with Southern Regional
Technical College (SRTC) and they have been working with the college online and
GED classes.
Sayles said one of the
organizations that Literacy Volunteers is a part of, ProLiteracy,
conducted online seminar programs on distance learning.
“At this time with so many
people doing Zoom meetings and FaceTiming, it seemed like a good time to do
distance learning,” said Sayles.
Taylor Hand, an Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural Center senior who interns with Literacy Volunteers is recruiting
volunteers for distance learning.
“We are encouraging students,
ABAC instructors, teachers off for the summer and retired teachers to contact
Literacy Volunteers to be a mentor or coach working with GED students and
Literacy clients over the summer,” said Sayles. Sayles said she would train the
volunteers to be able to do online outreach.
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Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 14
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 21-22 yrs. old
(college level)
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Literacy Council of Montgomery
County
Studio 501c3
EP 19: 4.23.2020 by Kim Jones
The LCMC (Literacy
Council of Montgomery County) teaches English to adult students as
Executive Director Gabriel Martinez Cabrera tells Studio 501c3 host Kim Jones
on this episode. But there is more. The associated programs offered by this
nonprofit also prepare clients for family-sustaining work. WATCH 15:00
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Reading Connections Continues Work
To Offer Stability Amid The Pandemic
My
Fox 8: 5.27.2020 by Katie Nordeen
Reading is a fundamental skill
that too many adults in our community lack. Reading Connections is on a mission
to change that.
“By educating parents and
educating their children, we’re working towards breaking that cycle of
illiteracy and thereby breaking the cycle of poverty,” said Allison Welch,
Literacy Manager with Reading Connections.
“We serve adult students, both
native English speakers as well as immigrants and refugees, and we help them
improve their English literacy skills,” said Welch.
Since 2006, it’s offered The
Family Literacy Classes — a 10-week course for parents and their children.
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For now, Reading Connections is
offering distance education programming and providing their families a bit of
stability during these uncertain times.
“They’re dealing with job loss
and filing for unemployment and many other things that many other folks are
dealing with during this difficult time,” Welch said. “But the fact that our
students continue to seek out these opportunities to improve their English
skills is awesome.” WATCH
01:53
Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 11
Reading Level: fairly difficult
to read.
Reader's Age: 15-17 yrs. old
(Tenth to Eleventh graders)
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