Literacy: Spanning
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| Literacy Volunteers Oswego County |
Volunteers Play Key
Role For OCO
Oswego
County Today: 6.15.2020
For OCO’s Literacy Volunteers of Oswego
County, the name says it all. Literacy Volunteers’ tutors provide weekly
tutoring services in reading, writing, math, English speaking, computer, and
workplace skills. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate impact
on the Literacy Volunteers program; one that affected both the adult learners
and the tutors.
“Tutoring is done face to face,
but of course we are not able to do that now,” explained Literacy Volunteers
Program Coordinator Meg Henderson. “The way we deliver our service has
completely changed during this pandemic.
Tutors are meeting weekly over the phone or virtually through a platform
like Zoom. They have also had to adjust by learning new technologies to best
assist their students with instruction remotely.”
While the COVID-19 pandemic has
created a challenging situation, Literacy Volunteers’ tutors have not let that
deter them from working with their students.
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Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 12
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 17-18 yrs. old
(Twelfth graders)
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SAIL Will Be Offering Summer
Programs
Strathmore
Now: 6.15.2020 by Cody Gillespie
The Strathmore
& area Adult Inclusive Learning (SAIL) program will be adapting to the
restrictions, like many other programs this year, to offer a few summer
courses. Literacy Services Coordinator at the Strathmore Municipal Library
Tammy Nischuk believes that summer is a great time to learn and wants to
connect with the community in a low technology way. Various programs will be
offered including a “Walk and Talk” for english learners to walk around the
community (following the restrictions of social distancing) and practice their
conversational english. There will be a program called Telephone Talk, where
individuals who’ve had difficulty talking or using a phone can learn the
basics, and the library also offers a program called Mastering Math to help
people brush up on their math skills and shake off some of the rust for those
going back to school or wanting to sharpen their numeracy skills.
Nischuk explains that at this
time, a majority of courses will remain online with a few opening up to some
socially distanced interaction. “We really wanted to be able to see our
learners face to face which is why we’re having the very small, space limited,
Walk and Talk. In the fall, we’re planning on continuing with online delivery
until something changes,” said Nischuk. READ
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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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Project READ'S Book Club:
Father's Day Edition
Redwood
City Library: 6.17.2020
Welcome back to our weekly Book Club. Today
we're celebrating Dads by reading, How To Surprise Dad written by Jean Reagan.
Then join along as we make an animated card for Father's Day or for any special
person in your life.
How
To Surprise Dad written by Jean Reagan
Animated Card Directions Video
A Simple Way to Make Artwork
Appear to Move!
This fun activity will give
students the opportunity to create a basic animation to better understand how motion
pictures and the human eye work.
Activity Challenge: Create an animated greeting
card.
Preparation
1. Review the Materials Needed
list and gather all materials.
2. Think about the animation you
want to show. For example, you might show a fish opening its mouth to
eat, a monster smiling, or a student laughing. Use your imagination!
To Do
1.
Start by folding one sheet of
paper in half.
2.
Fold one of the top flaps over
so it aligns with the folded crease.
3.
We are going to draw a friendly
monster for this activity. Keeping the flap down, draw an oval for your
monster’s head.
4.
Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 6
Reading Level: fairly easy to
read.
Reader's Age: 10-11 yrs. olds
(Fifth and Sixth graders)
* Happy 45th
Anniversary LVT!
LVT
Newsletter: January 2009
We have certainly come a long
way since 1973 when, disturbed by census figures which showed a large number of
functional illiterates in the Tarrytowns, Selma Shill of Warner Library looked into the
work of Literacy Volunteers of
America.
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A decision to form a
library-sponsored affiliate in the Tarrytowns was
made. The following spring, people in the community interested in the adult
literacy movement were invited to a meeting at Warner. About twenty people
responded, and in June 1974 a provisional affiliate was organized and named Literacy Volunteers of the
Tarrytowns. The Friends of the Library and the Library Board of Trustees
gave financial support. June Schermerhorn, an early volunteer, and Selma Shill
worked together to build a strong organization. They are recognized as
co-founders.
LVT’s first basic reading
workshop, held in October 1974, produced twenty-two trained tutors. The group
decided to enter the English as a Second Language (ESL) field when the wave of
immigration from many lands that had given the Tarrytowns a colorful ethnic
diversity and had also resulted in a large number of adult residents who could
not speak English. In the spring of 1975, ten individuals were certified as
tutors at the conclusion of the first ESL workshop.
As the years passed, LVT
continued its work of training tutors and teaching students as its volunteers
reached an ever-widening circle of people in need of help. The Library provided
a base, with an LVT office as well as space for tutoring, workshops and
meetings. READ
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Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 12
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 17-18 yrs. old
(Twelfth graders)
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