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Isha shares her experience tutoring her
learner, Marisela:
As a college student involved in creative writing,
poetry, and teaching English literacy, I strive to make every meeting with my
student Maricela very engaging and inspiring.
When Maricela first joined the library’s
literacy program, she was eager and ready
to dive straight into goal-oriented lessons, go page by page in the workbook,
and learn flashcards. Though this progressed well, I realized that introducing
her to some light reading, poetry, and current events could be a major
breakthrough for her understanding of English. With this in mind, we started planning
out all the activities we could do together on Zoom all while staying safe at
home.
While preparing for her citizenship exam and
interview, Maricela has been especially interested in the current issues
regarding the US election and the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the topics that
made headlines this past year were not always uplifting. Together, Maricela and
I chose to balance this by splitting our time between reading the news, and
reading a short story or poem that reflects a positive outlook on life and
learning. READ MORE ➤➤
Based
on 7 readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 14
Reading
Level: difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: 21-22 yrs. old
(college
level)
I’m writing to invite my fellow Delawareans
to help Literacy
Delaware fulfill its mission of
empowering adult learners to realize their potential as confident,
self-sufficient and productive employees, family members and contributors to
their communities. Literacy Delaware trains volunteer tutors to work with
learners at mutually convenient times.
I was interested in teaching ESL and found
Literacy Delaware through a course I took through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
After completing my training, I was matched with Paco, a musician from Senegal.
Paco speaks English pretty well but reading
and writing are greater challenges. In working with Paco, I learned he enjoys
biographies, texts provided by Literacy Delaware geared towards beginning
readers. READ MORE ➤➤
Based
on 7 readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 14
Reading
Level: very difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: 21-22 yrs. old
(college
level)
Literacy Volunteers Announces Winners Of
Poetry Contest
Daily
Bulldog: 4.16.2021
Literacy
Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset Counties
announces the winners of the eleventh annual Literacy Volunteers Poetry
Contest, sponsored by Western Maine Financial Services and Susan and Fritz
Onion. LVFSC wishes to thank all of the contributing poets, and the judge,
Laine Kuehn.
🔽
Students of Literacy Volunteers
First Place: Anna Crockett, Pinewood Angels
Second Place: Joanna Ladd, Learning in
Important to Me
Third Place: Lorrie Chicoine, My Dog Casey
Rae
Pinewood Angels, by Anna Crocket
The three angles at Pinewood
Were Rosie, Betty and myself
As Sus left for the day she said
“My residents are safe my angel team is here
watching over them’
I love them, enjoyed being in their life
Taking care of the residents
Just small thing made them happy
Like set the radio station.
Make molasses cookies.
Putting good smelly lotion on them
Take time to give a smile and a touch
Sit and talk to them
I said to my friend
‘I was a angel’
She said ‘not you a Anna a angel’
Ask Sus ‘If I was a angel
Rosie and Betty were angels too
I remembered it was a good feeling
To take care of the residents
It takes a special person
To be an angel
The angels live on forever
Our residents are angels
In heaven watching over
The pinewood angels
Anna , Betty and Rosie.
Learning is Important to Me, by Joanna Ladd
I come here to be taught different things.
I come to learn how to do poems.
I keep learning because I think it is fun.
I keep learning to prove to myself I can
graduate.
When learn I feel like need to learn a lot
more than what I do.
My Dog Casey Rae, by Lorrie Chicoine
I got my dog at
8 weeks old
She was a spoil rotten Dog she was a
Good dog.
The collection of winning poems are
published on the LVFSC
website and will also be
published in a poetry chapbook. READ MORE ➤➤
Based
on 7 readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 14
Reading
Level: difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: 21-22 yrs. old
(college
level)
READ Saint John Raises Literacy Awareness
Through Fundraiser
Country
94: 4.16.2021 by Elizabeth
MacLeod
Non-profit volunteer
organization READ Saint John’s “Lotto for Literacy” campaign and updated
website and social platforms are helping mark a brand new chapter in its
commitment to adult literacy.
Vice
President of READ Saint John, Josh Adams says the focus is on helping adult
learners with literacy and basic math skills through one-on-one, confidential
tutoring.
“The
reality is for so many of our learners, they’ve got these practical goals that
they want to reach,” says Adams.
“Sometimes it’s about being able to encourage your child to become a
bookworm and read to them and sometimes it’s the practical life goals, things
like getting a driver’s permit or carrying through with being able to help
children read.”
🔽
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| @LaubachNB |
Laubach
Literacy NB reports more than 50 per cent of New
Brunswickers aged 16 and older, (or approximately 300,000 people in the
province), are at either literacy Level 1, (having few basic skills great
difficulty with text), or Level 2, (having limited skills and cannot read well). READ
MORE ➤➤
Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 15
Reading Level: difficult to read.
Reader's Age: College graduate
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