Literacy: Spanning the US
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McKinley
Park News: 6.09.2020 by Justin Kerr
Aquinas Literacy Center closed
its doors on Monday, March 16, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, turning
off the lights in its growing headquarters at West 35th and South Wood streets
in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago. However, the pandemic has proved
little match for the non-profit's staff and volunteers, who have moved literacy
training, volunteer tutor development and the organization's community events
online.
Aquinas Volunteer Coordinator
Sabrina Poulin reported that the center has continued engaging hundreds of
people through online channels to continue its mission of literacy education.
Daily English language assignments flow to 124 learners via email, and 50
learners have access to the Rosetta Stone commercial language training software
on their computers and phones, Poulin said.
=The direct, one-on-one English
language tutoring between a trained volunteer and a local adult English
language learner has continued through online videoconferencing. READ
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Based on (7) readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 21
Reading
Level: very difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: College graduate
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Jefferson Co Post: 6.09.2020
Parrott-Wood Memorial
Library receives a $3,000.00 Grant from the Dollar General
Literacy Foundation to Support Adult Literacy. This grant was obtained
through The Friends of Parrott-Wood Memorial Library. Donna Phillips, the
Library Director stated this Adult Literacy Grant will enable the library to
offers HISET (GED) TUTORING, ACT Tutoring, Resume Writing, and so much more. If
we did not have grants like this, our library could not offer these enrichment
programs to our community. We are very thankful to have received this grant
during the Covid-19.
This local grant is 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 MORE ➤➤
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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Daily
Bulldog: 6.10.2020
Literacy Volunteers of Franklin
and Somerset Counties, in collaboration with the Farmington Public Library,
congratulate the winners of the 2020 annual poetry contest. All of the winning
poems can be read below.
"The Franklin County
community is lucky to have a contest like this, especially now. It is important
to have a place to which people can contribute their voices, and while part of
the thrill of a contest is to submit knowing that you may not place in it, I
feel outrageously fortunate knowing I get to read to every entry," said
judge Laine Kuehn.
"I believe that poetry is
a unifying force (and I believe that everyone can, and should, write poems). These
last few months have been incredibly difficult for many, but I believe they
also offer moments to slow down, moments of self-discovery, and the time to try
to find language to talk about the things that move around inside us and matter
to us most. As Mary Oliver wrote in her poem The Uses of Sorrow,
'Someone
I loved once gave me
a box
full of darkness.
It
took me years to understand
that
this, too, was a gift.'
So many voices sang through the
poems submitted to this contest this year: voices of resistance, of
self-investigation; young, curious voices and old, bright ones; voices which
have been silenced and voices celebrating their sound. There were love poems, poems
about deep familial bonds, poems of place, poems of quiet and unrepeatable
moments, poems with a deft hand of rhyme and form, poems exploring private
sorrows and dark places, poems probing deep confusion and poems which howl joy.
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The winners are:
Students of Literacy Volunteers
First Place: Joseph
Austin, Morning
Alone
Second Place: Anna
Crockett, Not
Knowing
Third Place: Liz
Hodgkins, My
Amazing Mom.
Morning alone, by Joseph Austin,
First place, Farmington
Fire burns in the wood stove
Appliances hum.
Through the window, trees are in
silhouette.
Sun is rising.
A fullness envelops me.
I am alone,
Yet feel a part of something.
There is no feeling of
loneliness.
I watch the skyline,
Wanting the light to stay as it
is,
Breaking dawn.
Shortly, day will be upon us.
The light pink sky,
It takes me away.
Sitting in a Rangeley boat,
Coaxing brook trout from the
waters of the Kennebago.
The perfect time of day,
No pressure.
The show hasn’t begun,
Just sitting in the theatre, alone,
watching the preview,
Pink sky, purple clouds,
Quiet except for the birds.
I recall the chickadees from my
walk in the woods yesterday.
I was alone,
And yet, I was not.
26+
First Place: Andre
Cormier, Mother,
May I Revolution
Second Place: Nancy Romaines
Walters, What
Caused It
Third Place: Dave
Mitchel, Reflection.
Mother, May I Revolution by
Andre Cormier, First place
The May wind is gusting its guts
out,
the geek-gone rage, old man
winter whispers
turned to the wind of the wolf's
lungs huffing and puffing,
your little house down, your
backyard bbq
celebration of green overcoming
brown,
blown from your mind with the
leaves of fall
that hurtle decomposed,
ticker-ticker-tisk
through fresh blades of grass
and ephemeral flowers,
zombies in the jet stream
of seasonal pendulum swing.
Chirps of birds and frogs, fowl
and amphibian,
swallowed in the rush and lust
of equilibrium,
Awakening stalled by a shout of
life
stolen breath and polar vortex,
pouring from exhausted lungs.
Awakening stalled, its revival
from autumnal bookmark,
its catalyst of equinox all
undone,
smothered in 3 inches of
feathery wet flakes of snow.
One more reminder that cycles
can be disrupted,
anomalies can be deadly;
A sharp, but jagged incision in
the cloak of normalcy,
where the winds of violent
change find their opening.
May 9, 2020
Based on (7) readability
formulas:
Grade Level: 10
Reading Level: standard /
average.
Reader's Age: 14-15 yrs. old
(Ninth to Tenth graders)
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