Literacy: Spanning the US
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Each One Teach One
Yasmin Tomkinson Steers The Cape
Fear Literacy Council
WilmaMag: 6.22.2020 by
Beth Klahre
It’s called the silent epidemic.
One in six adults struggles with reading.
YASMIN TOMKINSON, executive
director of the Cape Fear Literacy
Council (CFLC), drives the mission to provide personalized education so
adults can transform their lives and contribute to a stronger community.
“Low literacy among adults is
an underlying factor in almost every social issue: unemployment and underemployment;
children’s academic prospects; incarceration rates; drug and alcohol abuse;
high health care costs,” Tomkinson says.
Tomkinson’s journey to
executive director traversed the United States. After attending Vassar College,
studying education and American history, she joined Volunteers in Service to
America.
“I lived in a small Utah town
near Navajo and Ute Indian reservations. My first day, tumbleweeds rolled down
the street. I wondered what I had just committed to! But, it turned out to be
an incredible year, learning about different communities and cultures. I began
to understand the kind of work that I found rewarding,” she recalls.
Subsequently, Tomkinson
traveled across the county working with various nonprofits including California
Campus Contact in Los Angeles and the Abell Foundation improving the quality of
life in her hometown, Baltimore.
Tomkinson moved to Wilmington
in 2002 to escape the Boston cold. She started to volunteer at CFLC in the
one-on-one tutoring program. Eventually hired, Tomkinson became responsible for
the Adult Literacy Program. READ MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 12
Reading Level: difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: 17-18 yrs. old
(Twelfth graders)
COVID Diaries
CLLS Special
Projects: 2020
Each of us has been impacted in
different ways by the COVID-19 pandemic. Old, young, and in-between, we’ve all
experienced big changes in our work life, family life, and social life.
The California State Library is
inviting Californians to share their experiences and stories of the COVID-19
pandemic.
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We encourage the California Library Literacy Services
community to take part in this project and share a story, a poem, a
letter–however you feel comfortable expressing yourself. Learners can choose to
write their own submission or dictate their experience to their tutor.
The project team will collect
submissions from learners, tutors, and library literacy staff, add submissions
to the State Library’s archive, and maintain a California Library Literacy
Services archive.
* The project website is for the
California Library Literacy Services community only. Library literacy
coordinators will provide learners and tutors with access to the URL.
Resources
A template for writing a themed
poem
(it can be helpful to create your
Word Bank first)
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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Neuse Regional Libraries Awarded
LSTA Literacy Without Barriers Grant
Kinston:
6.24.2020 by Melanie Morgan, Neuse Regional Library
The Neuse Regional Libraries
(NRL) are excited to be rolling out the Literacy Without Barriers project
beginning July 1, 2020 thanks to a $29,121 grant made possible by funding from
the federal Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and
Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a
division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
The NRL seek to support several
types of literacy through programs and services that address the
intergenerational nature of literacy, and support parents as the first teachers
of their children. The NRL will create literacy centers at the Greene County Public
Library, Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library, La Grange Public Library,
Maysville Public Library, and Pollocksville Public Library to meet the
essential educational and technology needs of families . . . READ
MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 23
Reading Level: very difficult to
read.
Reader's Age: College graduate
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