Covina Library :: Winter Wine Walk - Dec 8 :: Second Start Literacy

Winter Wine Walk

Covina Library

Second Start Literacy

Dec 8 :: 5 pm

Good wine, good people, good times - the Covina Downtown Merchants Association bi-annual Wine Walk is here!  All participants must be 21 years of age and up, please purchase your tickets at the Covina Public Library - all proceeds go towards the Second Start Literacy Program!

Make it a girl's night, date night, or just enjoy making new friends while exploring Downtown Covina!

Donation:  $20

Literacy @ Your Library

The Second Start Literacy Program is committed to lifelong learning and educational enrichment. Programs are designed to help improve reading, writing, and math skills through individual and small group tutoring by trained volunteers.

For more information call:  (626) 384-5280

Covina Library :: Wine Walk for Literacy :: May 20

Wine Walk for Literacy

Covina Library

May 20: 5 pm – 8pm

Second Start Literacy Program

The program serves native English speakers as well as students coming out of the ESL program who need to improve their skills before they move on to higher learning. The program is designed to help adults obtain the skills they need to reach their goals and is based on an Individual Learning Plan. The plan is developed by the adult and the Literacy Coordinator together. Adults are carefully matched with professionally trained volunteer tutors and receive instruction twice per week.

The adult ESL program offers those with limited English proficiency an opportunity to acquire and learn the English language communication skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in a competency-based format.

Purchase your tickets at the Covina Public Library for a chance to win a win basket!   (626) 384-5280

Enjoy twelve (12) tastings of wine for a $20 donation!

All proceeds will benefit the Literacy Program.

Banned Books Week :: SCLLN Member Libraries

Banned Books Week :: SCLLN Member Libraries

Celebrate and learn about Banned Books Week by attending LAPLs BANNED BOOKS WEEK kickoff event. We will discuss why some books are considered controversial and look at Teen Books that some people think should be censored.

Saturday, September 26, 2015     

2:00pm to 3:00pm     

Donald Bruce Kaufman - Brentwood Branch Library

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Eagle Rock Branch Library

Teens

OC Public Libraries celebrates the freedom to read and to seek and express ideas, even those some think are unorthodox or unpopular. Did you know that the following books have been challenged or censored in some parts of the country?

More lists of banned books

More about Banned Books Week from the American Library Association

Altadena Library promotes awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrates freedom of speech during Banned Books Week, September 27 — October 3.

Banned Books Week (Carlsbad Library Learning Center)

Get caught reading banned books and enter to win a prize and treat!

For grades 6-12.

Monday, September 28, 2015

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Library Learning Center, 3368 Eureka Pl, Carlsbad, CA, 92008

Teen Programs

Covina Library

Dates: September 29 - October 3

Celebrate National Banned Books Week by reading a book that has been banned or challenged by libraries or school districts. Books will be on display in the library and a list will be available online.

All-Day Read-Aloud Read-a-Thon

San Diego Central Library, 330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, 92101

Friday, October 2, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. PDT

To help raise awareness regarding the censorship of books, the San Diego Public Library, in partnership with the San Diego Costume Guild, presents the 4th annual All-Day Read-Aloud Read-a-thon on Friday, October 2, 2015 from 12 to 5 p.m. in the Garden Courtyard at the San Diego Central Library at the Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common, located at 330 Park Blvd in downtown San Diego.

The public is invited to read alongside librarians, volunteer and teen readers, and special guests from the Costume Guild, who will appear as costumed characters from many favorite books including Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland.

“It’s important to realize that not every book will be right for every reader,” says library director Misty Jones. “The freedom to choose for ourselves what we want to read is a hard-won right that we must not take for granted. Reading, speaking, thinking and expressing ourselves freely are core American values.”

Glendora Library :: Parent and Teacher Phonics Workshop | Sep 26

Parent and Teacher Phonics Workshop

Glendora Public Library -- Bidwell Forum

September 26

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Have you or your child ever read a word and thought, "Well, English is just crazy, that is a word that just has to be memorized?” If you have, we have good news for you: English is not crazy and there is a way to investigate words along with your child or students (dyslexic and non-dyslexic) to learn the true underlying structure, and never utter those words again!

You are invited to attend a Community Literacy Program on Structure Word Inquiry featuring Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley and Tracy Block-Zaretsky.  Dr. Sandman-Hurley is a published author and researcher of dyslexia and received her doctorate in Literacy with a specialization in reading and dyslexia from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. Ms. Block-Zaretsky is a trained Special Education Advocate assisting parents and children through the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and 504Plan process and has tutored children and adults with learning disabilities for the past 18 years. Together, they formed the Dyslexia Training Institute in San Diego.

Presented jointly by the Glendora, Azusa, Covina and Monrovia Public Library Literacy programs, as well as Glendora Public Library Friends Foundation, this program is offered free to all community members, including teachers, parents, students and anyone interested in adult and family literacy.

•Learn to find the sense in English and “sight words”.

•Become a word detective by conducting word hypothesis and creating word sums.

•Learn about the interrelationship between morphology, etymology and phonology.

The Glendora Public Library is located at 140 S. Glendora Ave., Glendora CA 91741. To register for this program, please call the Library at 626-852-4891.

Money Smart Week : : SCLLN Libraries

Money Smart Week

@ SCLLN Libraries

Money Smart Week

Anaheim Public Library

Carlsbad City Library

will host free workshops at each of its locations during Money Smart Week, April 18-25.

Covina Library

Celebrate Money Smart Week

Floe Financial Partners Presents an Information and Discussion Session:

Avoiding Big Mistakes When Saving for Retirement and While in Retirement

Wednesday, April 22, 1:30-2:30 pm

Upland Library

Money Smart Week @ Your Library

Literacy FUNraisers :: Covina Library ::: Glendora Library

2015 Craft Beer Walk

Fundraiser Benefiting

Covina Public Library's Literacy Program

March 21 :: 5-8 pm

Downtown Covina, Badillo St & Citrus Ave.

Tickets :: $10 donation

Purchase your tickets at the

Covina Public Library, 234 N. Second Ave

For more info

Lilly Jimenez, Literacy Coordinator @ 626-384-5280.

Great Trivia Challenge

Fundraiser Benefiting

Glendora Library & Literacy Program

March 21 :: 5 pm 

Azusa Pacific University

Felix Event Center

710 E. Foothill Blvd

Admission $15 each

For More Info 

Christine Cravens @ 626-852-4894

Covina Library - Second Start Literacy Program

Second Start Literacy Program

The Literacy Program now offers a free English as a Second Language Program (ESL) Funding Sources: WIA Title II Grant (Workforce Investment Act)

Join the Covina Public Library’s Free English as a Second Language Program. The program helps learners achieve proficiency in English and related skills needed for daily life and employment situations. All students are tutored in one-on-one settings and get individualized reading instruction twice per week. The program starts at the beginning level for those who neither read nor write English and progress to the final level before learners can be mainstreamed into all English instruction. For more information, call the Literacy Division at (626) 384-5280.

Are You Interested in Becoming a Volunteer Literacy Tutor?
- All volunteers are carefully screened and receive the proper training in order to become excellent tutors.
- Volunteers work one-on-one with either an adult or a child.
- Commitment: two hours per week (tutors can arrange to meet with their students one hour twice per week, or schedule two sessions consecutively)

Adult Literacy Awareness Month - Los Angeles Co Library - Covina Library

Adult Literacy Awareness Month

September Spotlight

on SCLLN Literacy Programs

County of Los Angeles Public Library
Literacy Centers

Our mission is to assist individuals with reading and writing improvement and to teach adults and families to utilize the public library as a resource for lifelong learning.

The County of Los Angeles Public Library offers free adult and family literacy instruction at Literacy Centers & Community Libraries convenient to tutors and learners. The program became part of the California Literacy Campaign in 1984 through an initiative of the California State Library. Since 1984, the Library has expanded literacy services to meet the needs of adults and families wanting to improve their reading and writing skills. (562) 940-8511

Covina Public Library - Second Start Literacy Program

A library-based literacy service with a mission of assisting English-speaking adults and children who wish to improve basic literacy skills. Trained volunteers and staff strive to create a learning environment that promotes self-esteem and helps adult learners to participate more effectively and productively in society. Lessons are individualized, confidential, and highly-goal oriented. Tutors structure the learning process around the goals of the learner, using materials that relate to those goals. The service is provided free of charge and on a one-to-one basis. For more information: (626) 384-5280

Covina Library - Literacy Showdown: Fundraiser helps tutoring program

Literacy Showdown: Fundraiser helps tutoring program
SGVTribune: April 19, 2009 by Claudia S. Palma

Answering questions such as "how many sides are in an isosceles triangle" to "what famous sandwich cookie appeared in 1913," teams were eliminated one by one during the Covina Trivia Showdown on April 14.

The Robert's Ringers team were crowned champs by the end of the Covina Public Library's Second Start Literacy Program's eighth annual showdown at Nick's Taste of Texas.

Twelve three-member teams competed for the ultimate prize - a large trophy cup and the winning title.

But the real winners of the night were the students that benefit from the literacy program. Proceeds from the night's event went toward funding the program.

Since 1999, the literacy program, an expansion of the Covina Literacy Council, has provided hours of free one-on-one tutoring, beginning with English-speaking adults and then expanding to programs for children looking to improve their reading and math skills.

For young Jody Iniguez, reading seemed to really bring him a sense of joy.

"The tutor helped me a lot," said the 7-year-old Covina resident.

His parents, German and Erika Iniguez, said they have seen a big difference in their son since beginning the program in June last year.

"He was having trouble spelling, reading consistently, finishing sentences," said German.

"Now with the tutoring, he reads at the top of his class, his spelling has improved a lot and he reads whole books."

The nonprofit program relies on grants, donations and fundraising to offer the free service. The tutors are volunteers, giving their free time to help the students.

For more information on the Second Start Literacy Program, call (626) 858-5553. READ MORE !

Covina Library - Volunteer Opportunities

Pat Sullivan:
San Gabriel Valley Tribune: August 2, 2006

Last week I told you about some programs at the Covina Public Library. This week let me tell you about some volunteer opportunities there.

The library has an After School Homework Center where students in at least grade eight with straight As may serve as a peer tutor if they are also on the school's honor toll.

For information on this position, which looks very good on a resume, call the children's librarian at (626) 967-3936.

Tutors are also needed in the literacy program at the library. There are three half-day weekend training sessions that you must attend before being assigned an adult student to work with.

This is a very rewarding volunteer opportunity. Lisa Valore can tell you all you need to know about it so call her at (626) 858-4553 or go online to www.covinaliteracy.org

There are other jobs that need to be done at the library like shelving books and clerical chores. The Friends of the Covina Library could probably do with some help as well.

Volunteer applications can be picked up from the Circulation Desk any time you are at the library.

When I used to work at the Covina Public Library there was a doctor in town who never put his senior citizen patients in to physical therapy. He sent them to the library to shelve books.

If you have never shelved it is quite challenging in some ways and much more interesting than repetitive exercises at the gym. You push, pull, stretch, bend, squat, lift and make other movements that are actually a very good exercise that produces something worthwhile and a sense of satisfaction.

You also meet some very nice people in the library.

Try it, you might like it.