Southern California Library Literacy Network: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events :: August 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events

August 2016

SCLLN

Literacy & Library Events & Conferences

- Local, California and National –

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

for more information

Read A Romance Month

Aug 02 National Coloring Book Day

Aug 09 Book Lovers Day

Aug 09 Autism Sensory Friendly Films SUICIDE SQUAD 7p

Aug 10 Annual Picture Book 10 for 10 #pb10for10 Google Community

Aug 13 Autism Sensory Friendly Films PETE'S DRAGON 10a

Aug 20 Liemert Park Book Fair Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza

Aug 20+ Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival Parsons Lodge, Yosemite Natl Park

Aug 23 Autism Sensory Friendly Films WAR DOGS 7p

Aug 26 WorldCat Birthday

Aug 27 Autism Sensory Friendly Films PETE'S DRAGON 10a

ALOUD: Library Foundation of Los Angeles @ALOUDla

Los Angeles Literary Calendar @LALitScene

Poets & Writers Los Angeles Literary Events Calendar

California Book Festivals

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Altadena Library :: Bob Lucas Branch and Literacy Center Honored at Neighborhood Church

Bob Lucas Branch and Literacy Center Honored at Neighborhood Church

Connect: July 2016 From the Director

On June 11th, 2016 the Bob Lucas Branch and Literacy Center was honored at the Altadena’s 7th Day Adventist’s Church’s International Day of Fellowship for community service. The Church recognizes one organization’s community service annually at this event. We were this year’s proud recipients! Staff were presented with a plaque at the service that now adorns our wall.

The International Day of Fellowship was coordinated by Dr. Sybil Cross and the service was conducted by Lead Pastor, Dr. Richardson Honoré, Pastor Dr. Royal Harrison and Pastor E.M. McBride. The event featured beautiful singing by Noelette Leader and other parishioners and music by the Church band. This spiritually uplifting event celebrated neighbors, community, and diversity. International fellowship was celebrated by a parade of flags from around the world that were carried by local community members. Our own ESL teacher, Modesta Nava proudly carried the flag for Mexico.

We are grateful for this recognition for our literacy program and library services for the community.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

SCLLN Tutor Workshop :: August 4 :: Commerce Library READS Center

SCLLN Tutors!

You are invited to attend a special workshop

just for you!

August 4th, 2016

9:30 am – 1 pm

Presenter

Jerry Edwards

Santa Fe Springs City Library

Commerce READs Center

Commerce Library

5655 Jillson St

Join us to increase your skills in the following topics:

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan

Using a lesson plan can help you organize and strategize your approach to adult literacy. Do you run out of time or are not sure where you are going with your lessons? Do you find yourself spending an hour on just one component (sight words, reading practice, word attack, etc.)?

Intonation and Speed -- The Road to Better Comprehension

Do your learners read word for word? Do they disregard punctuation? Do they struggle through (but finish) a sentence and wonder what they read?

DEADLINE :: Monday, August 1^st

Evelyn Diaz

Literacy Program Manager

Commerce READS Center

(323) 722-6660 ext. 2823

Thank you to SCLLN for sponsoring this event!

Monday, July 25, 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: August 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar

August 2016

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

Read A Romance Month

Aug 03 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Fontana 5p

Aug 04 SCLLN Tutor Workshop Commerce Library READs Center

Aug 04 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy, Torrance Library 7p

Aug 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Rialto 10a

Aug 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Chino 10a

Aug 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SLO Co Library 10a

Aug 09 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 12N

Aug 10 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Logan Heights Library 6p
Aug 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Newport Beach Library 5:30p

Aug 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Burbank Library 6p

Aug 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Placentia Library 1p

Aug 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Yucca Valley Library 9a

Aug 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Grand Terrace Library 10:30a

Aug 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ/San Diego Logan Heights Library 10a
Aug 15 Adult Literacy FUNraiser Huntington Beach Library @ Lazy Dog N-8p

Aug 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Corona Library 7p

Aug 16 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Hesperia Library 3p

Aug 18 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 6p
Aug 20 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Santa Barbara Library Buellton 9a

Aug 22 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Logan Heights Library 9a

Aug 27 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego Co Library El Cajon 10a
Aug 27 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Apple Valley 10a

Aug 30 Youth Literacy Tutor Training Santa Fe Springs Library 6p

Aug 30 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Santa Fe Springs Library 6p

Beverly Hills Library Adult Literacy: last Friday month 10:30 - 12 N

LAPL Adult Literacy volunteers receive 7 hours of Online Instruction

Local Tutor Workshops :: Always Scrolling in the Right Frame

Statewide Workshops @ California Library Literacy Services

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Writing Prompts :: WeAreTeachers | Wordless Books | Storytelling | Pea Green Boat Books | Rumack Learning | MorleysEY

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Superlatives from SCLLN

15 Awesome #Classroom Ideas for #Teachers:

http://bzfd.it/1Xnp0AD

#edchat

@WeAreTeachers Jul 17

Pea Green Boat Books

Retweeted SF Said

Wordless picture books are a tremendous tool for literacy!

Writing prompts for fledgling readers to the experienced

@peagreenboatbks Jun 15

Silly animal pictures make great writing prompts!

Have students use the 5 W's to tell about the picture.

#literacy

@rumacklearning 24 Oct 2015

Prompt new creative writing ideas every time with this

http://bit.ly/1HeV2mZ

#storytelling

@MorleysEY 27 May 2015

Friday, July 22, 2016

Riverside County Library :: For many Inland residents, illiteracy remains a daily struggle, but libraries and others are trying to help.

For many Inland residents, illiteracy remains a daily struggle, but libraries and others are trying to help.

Press Enterprise: 6.10.2016 by Patrick O’Neill

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Maria Luz Colchado stared at a computer in Jurupa Valley's Louis Robidoux Library, a pair of padded headphones on her head, listening to an energetic, Spanish-speaking man describe how the program would lead to a better grasp of reading and writing in her native tongue.

Colchado, 56, paused to discuss her path to Riverside County's Literacy Lab.

"I went to school in Michoacan, Mexico, until I was in second grade, then I had to work," Colchado said.

Colchado left school when her father died. By 9, she was cleaning homes and baby-sitting for neighbors to support her family. Dropping out of school was common, "a thing we did to help out," she said.

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Of the 400 people who have signed up for one of the Riverside County Library System's literacy courses this year, over 80 percent don't speak English as their native language, said Dawn Wasley, the library system's director of operations. READ MORE @

Monday, July 18, 2016

Redlands Library :: Redlands Adult Literacy Program launches its first book club

Redlands Adult Literacy Program launches its first book club

Redlands Daily Facts: 6.25.2016 by Diane Shimota

Do you belong to a book club? Many of us enjoy the thrill of discussing a great book with fellow readers.

Using funding from generous donors, the Redlands Adult Literacy Program has launched its first book club tailored to adult learners. The inaugural book is the inspiring story “Who was Helen Keller?” by Gare Thompson.

Who was

Helen Keller?

Book club members are adult learners who have chosen to attend the Adult Literacy Summer Program, which had its first meeting June. The summer program runs through July and invites learners and tutors to meet weekly at the library so that learners can continue to work on their reading and writing skills when summer vacations can interrupt weekly tutoring meetings.

Adult learner Ana Alcantar recommended the book about Helen Keller, saying, “Helen Keller is a wonderful role model for everyone, but for adult learners in particular. Because of her determination and strength of spirit, Helen Keller overcame the obstacles of being both deaf and blind.

“She learned to read, write and speak. She also became a successful author. Helen Keller showed how to live a successful life in spite of her disabilities. Her story is a wonderful example of how all of us can overcome significant obstacles in life,” Alcantar said.

“Not being able to read or write is a significant obstacle that we work to overcome in the Redlands Adult Literacy Program,” she said.

Perhaps you know someone who struggles to improve his or her reading and writing. Studies show that 20 percent of the U.S. adult population has difficulties with reading and writing. READ MORE @

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Book Deserts :: NYU | Unite4Literacy | Soar With Reading | Jet Blue | Public Libraries

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Superlatives from SCLLN

The children who grow up in 'book deserts'

http://theatln.tc/2acaW8g

@TheAtlantic Jul 14

Book vending machines to serve kids

in "book deserts" in Detroit:

Today in Critical Linking:

https://t.co/x4XXUmtEkX

@BookRiot Jul 4

Can you imagine growing up without books?

The travesty of book deserts http://bit.ly/1E6C13T

by @ecochickie

@MotherNatureNet 5 Aug 2015

@UICLiteracy featured in

@USNewsEducation

story on literacy deserts

@UIC_CollegeofEd 21 Jul 2015

#Publiclibraries are the anchor institutions in and around book deserts.

Zoom to your community.

http://arcg.is/1yTiN4L

@Unite4Literacy 27 Apr 2015

Friday, July 15, 2016

Corona Library :: For many Inland residents, illiteracy remains a daily struggle, but libraries and others are trying to help.

For many Inland residents, illiteracy remains a daily struggle, but libraries and others are trying to help.

Press Enterprise: 6.10.2016 by Patrick O’Neill

For the first 80 years of her life, the sentence you are reading would have been nothing more than indecipherable symbols to Eleanor Miller.

Born in 1932 to young, adventurous and largely absent parents, Miller was raised by her blind grandmother in a small Pasadena home. Her family never noticed she couldn't read, and teachers passed her "because I never gave them any trouble," Miller said during a reading lesson at the Corona Public Library.

Now 84, the neatly dressed mother of seven sat, hands folded in her lap, recalling the difficulties of a life void of the written word. Like the time her son needed a doctor's note for school. Miller told him to write it up himself, then copied the letters on a separate sheet.

"People that can't read or write, they memorize stuff to continue this illusion," Miller said. "You avoid situations where you can't fake it."

Twenty percent of Inland residents older than 16 can't comprehend basic texts. That 2003 figure, the most current available, had more than doubled since 1992, National Center for Educational Statistics data show. READ MORE @

Thursday, July 14, 2016

How Big Is Your Vocabulary? :: Today in Critical Linking

BookRiot: 7.13.2016 by Jeff O’Neal

Ever wonder about your vocabulary size? Even if you are a daily English speaker or a native English speaker, you still might find this test challenging! We conducted academic research and looked at online resources to design the model of this quiz. We believe we’ve prepared the best quiz for you!

How big is your vocabulary? This quiz says it can tell you. (@A Real Me )

Monday, July 11, 2016

Newport Beach Library :: Gift of Literacy Luncheon

Gift of Literacy Luncheon

Newport/Mesa ProLiteracy - A program of NBPL

6.15.2016

Great time at the Gift of Literacy luncheon.

Check out the happy faces.

Thank you Gregg Hurwitz for helping to make this day so successful.

The 9th annual Gift of Literacy luncheon with Gregg Hurwitz was a HUGE success.

Thanks to all who helped make the day special; The amazing committee, Gregg Hurwitz, who regaled all with such wonderful stories, the many local businesses who supported the cause and all who attended in support of Literacy Services.

The learners are the true winners by knowing there is such community support working for their success.