Carlsbad Library ▬ Graphic Novel: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words for Learners

Keep It Together: Words on Inclusion, Equity and Diversity

Carlsbad Library Literacy

Learning Connection: May/June 2021 by Sandra Riggins

Graphic Novel: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words for Learners

Want to try something new with your reading? Graphic novels are a great resource for learners. Some people think that graphic novels are just comic books for kids, but they are so much more.

What Are Graphic Novels?

Today’s graphic novels are works of art that teach. Graphic novels have artwork on every page that help tell the story.

This is what makes it great for learners. There are many details of the story and setting that are shown with the pictures. It helps learners to understand the story because they can see details of the setting and situation without reading. This makes it easier to concentrate on the words and to understand the story better.

Great Graphic Novels in Our Collection

March

March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Illustrated by Nate Powell

This is the story of the life of John Lewis and his work for civil rights. This three-book series gives you his firsthand account of peacefully working for civil rights. You will understand the civil rights movement in ways you never did before.

Good Talk

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

This novel was written by the author about raising a son who is half Jewish and half Indian. It’s an interesting story about how she handles the challenges of his duel identities. Reader warning: There are adult situations, brief nudity and sexuality in this graphic novel.

When Stars
Are Scattered

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
Illustrated by Victoria Jamieson

This is the story of a young boy and his non-verbal brother living in a refugee camp in Kenya. Their father was killed and they were accidentally separated from their mother in Somalia. Although the story sounds sad, it is filled with tremendous hope. The illustrations are beautiful and colorful. It is an amazing true story.   READ MORE ➤➤

 

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 8

Reading Level: standard / average.

Reader's Age: 12-14 yrs. old

(Seventh and Eighth graders)

Carlsbad Library Literacy

Building skills, changing lives

Read to a child or read better at work.

Literacy Services provides tutoring to English-speaking adults who want to improve their basic reading and writing skills.

Learners are provided a friendly, supportive environment, where their needs and goals are valued. Each learner studies with a trained volunteer tutor. All services are free and confidential.

For more information, call 760-931-4510

Paragraphs: Give Us a Break! ▬ Teach Write

Paragraphs: Give Us a Break!

Paragraphs 

Teach Write: 1.17.2018 by Jennifer Laffin

I’d like to try a little experiment. Please read the following two passages.

   Passage #1:

   Passage #2:

Now that you've read both passages, think about the following questions:

➤ Which passage was easier to read? 

➤ Which passage was easier to understand? 

➤ How did you feel after reading both passages?

If you are like me, you found the second passage easier to read and understand. Why? Because it had paragraphs.

Using paragraphs correctly is an important skill for all writers because it makes the reader’s job much easier and more pleasant.

Paragraphs exist to give the readers’ eyes a rest and a few seconds to process what they’ve read before they start the next line. Paragraphs signal that a change is coming.

➤ They tie common sentences together in one neat little area.

➤ Readers expect them. Readers need them. When they are missing, it is noticed.

➤ But how do writers know when to start a new paragraph?

Use the New-New Rule:

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Automatic Readability Checker

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 6

Reading Level: easy to read.

Reader's Age: 10-11 yrs. old

(Fifth and Sixth graders)

 

Huntington Beach Library ▬ Cesar Chavez Day Word Search

CÉSAR CHÁVEZ DAY

Literacy Volunteers HBPL: 3.31.2021

Tutors, today, March 31, is the anniversary of Cesar Chavez’s birthday, and a day of commemoration to the legacy of Cesar Chavez’s work toward equal justice for all workers and his commitment to the respect for all human dignity.

See our Facebook page for more information to discuss with your learner. Word searches are a great way to reinforce spelling and learn current vocabulary.

Discuss the terms and definitions, then send the Word Search as a useful learning exercise!  READ MORE ➤➤

Cesar Chavez Day

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 11

Reading Level: fairly difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 15-17 yrs. old

(Tenth to Eleventh graders)

Literacy Volunteers – HBPL

has two programs, the Adult Literacy Program at Central Library (714) 375-5102 and the Oak View Literacy Program at the Oak View Branch Library (714) 375-5104. We always need tutors!

Newport Beach Library ▬ Tutor’s Corner: A Focus On Poetry

Tutor’s Corner: A Focus On Poetry

Newport/Mesa 
ProLiteracy

Literally Speaking: March 2021

With the renewed interest in poetry thanks to Amanda Gorman, now is a great time to examine how you can use poetry in your literacy lessons. Some students – and teachers - tend to shy away from poetry, but poetry is a great medium to teach adult learners at varying reading levels.

Without getting lost in a poet’s intended purpose for writing the poem, Nancy Padak’s “Poetry in the Adult Literacy Classroom” outlines how you can use poetry to aid in reading and writing instruction.

Focus on these four areas:

➧ Comprehension

➧ Fluency

➧ Phonics

➧ Writing

READ MORE ➤➤

 

Newport/Mesa ProLiteracy

VIRTUAL Adult Literacy Learner Orientation 

March 24 @ 10 am

VIRTUAL Adult Literacy Tutor Training 

April 7 and 14

10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Prospective tutors must attend both sessions to complete training. 

Reservations for this training are required.

Online Orientation must be completed before attending Training. 

       For more information, please contact literacy@newportbeachca.gov

Telephone: 949 . 717 . 3800 

Redlands Library ▬ Redlands Community Invited to Use Adult Literacy Resources

Redlands Community Invited to Use Adult Literacy Resources

The Cell Phone Lot

Smiley Library Blog: 10.04.2020 by Diane Shimota 

Generous donors and grantors have enabled the Redlands Adult Literacy Program to acquire a wide selection of literacy materials that are available for checkout by anyone in the community. These materials may be helpful to students who want to improve their reading and writing skills, and adults who want to improve their English literacy skills. You are invited to peruse the adult literacy collection at A. K. Smiley Public Library where you will find: fiction and nonfiction stories, biographies, abbreviated classics, graphic novels, audio books, and workbooks that enhance learning for those who are working to improve their literacy. Literacy books are written with themes that appeal to adult readers, but with grammar and vocabulary that make the books easy to understand.

The adult literacy collection includes contemporary stories that are available to everyone regardless of their reading level. The Gemma Open Door Series books are quick and easy to read. One of these books, The Cell Phone Lot by Greta Gorsuch, was chosen by the adult learner book club for their November selection. The book is a story about a young woman who lost her job and found herself unable to pay her bills. This resilient young woman found a way to generate income by working for a ride-sharing company. Through this new endeavor, she built relationships with people she met as they waited for riders at the cell phone lot.

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The pandemic has not slowed down adult literacy activities. If you are interested in becoming a tutor or if you would like help in reading and writing, please call Diane Shimota, adult literacy coordinator, at 909.798.7565, ext. 4138, or email her at literacy@akspl.org. The literacy program is free to all participants. If you have any questions about the adult literacy collection, please call or email the adult literacy coordinator.  READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Readability Consensus

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 11

Reading Level: difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 15-17 yrs. old

(Tenth to Eleventh graders)   

15 Ways To Use A Tablet In The Classroom @ Tech Edvocate

15 Ways To Use A Tablet In The Classroom

Tech Edvocate: 3.13.2018 by Matthew Lynch

81 percent of teachers think tablets can enrich classroom learning, so let’s look at how tablets may be used effectively in the classroom to engage students and further learning.

Virtual Field Trips

It is unlikely you will be able to take your students on field trips to every destination you cover in class; however, with a tablet, your students can go on virtual field trips anywhere. Some websites are even designed with this mind providing 360-degree video.

Research

Tablets are mobile internet devices; therefore, it is a portable research tool for the classroom. Students can research topics without having to leave their desks.

Reading and Listening to Books

E-books are specifically designed for use on tablets, so it makes sense to allow students to use their tablets for reading in the classroom. Additionally, tablets have speakers, which allow for easy listening to audiobooks or text-to-speech e-books.

Radio and Podcasts

Using apps such as Tune In Radio, students can listen to music, radio shows, and podcasts from all over the world on their tablets.

Presentations and Projects

Poster board projects are a thing of the past. Now, students can have tons of options for creating multimedia projects, comics, books, music, and more on a tablet. These projects can be shared and shown on your Smartboard.

Photography

Tablets have cameras, and with the right photography editing app, your students can work on creative projects or simply document class activities.  READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on (7) readability formulas:

Grade Level: 11

Reading Level: fairly difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 15-17 yrs. Old

(Tenth to Eleventh graders)

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Adult Learner LINKS

Organizations - Blogs - Exercises - Pronunciation & More

https://bit.ly/2N5nsem

Huntington Beach Library ▬ Keeping In Touch Photos + Captions

Keeping In Touch

Photos + Captions

Literacy Volunteers HBPL: 7.21 2020

Looking for an interesting tutoring lesson? 

Try this one out, it’s fun, easy and a nice way for learners and tutors to get to know each other a little better!

If you can read and write fluently, you can help an adult to read, write or speak English better. Literacy Volunteers - HBPL has tutor training workshops throughout the year.

The 15-hour class teaches Literacy Volunteers of America methods for helping adults improve their skills. After taking the class, you are matched with one adult student. You meet two hours a week, morning, afternoon, evening or weekend.

The Huntington Beach Library Adult Literacy Program has a collection of teaching materials, a computer lab and space in the library for tutor pairs to meet. We have two programs, the Adult Literacy Program at Central Library (714) 375-5102 and the Oak View Literacy Program at the Oak View Branch Library (714) 375-5104. We always need tutors!

Easy News: Black Lives Matter Special Issue

Easy News: Black Lives Matter

United Response: June 2020

Our latest issue is all about Black Lives Matter.

Murder of George Floyd

Black Lives Matter protests

Historical statues and Black Lives Matter

Struggle for equality in history

More information

Easy News is the first news magazine designed to be accessible for people with learning disabilities.  READ MORE ➤➤

Simple English News Daily Send7

Simple English News Daily

Send7

Daily world news in clear English.

Seven minutes of the most important stories in slow, intermediate English.

For English learners, teachers, and people with English as a second language. If you want to know today's world news of politics, business, natural events and human rights in clear, easy English, then SEND7 is for you, every morning.

Listen and read transcripts.

Monday 6th July 2020.

Starting in Asia today…

There has been a large rise in coronavirus cases across the middle-east. Iran recorded 163 deaths yesterday, the highest so far. Saudi Arabia has passed 200,000 infections and the UAE has passed 50,000. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have seen fast rises in cases since ending lockdowns a few weeks ago. Bahrain and Qatar have the highest confirmed infection rates in the world – in Qatar one in every 28 people has been infected, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In Japan 34 people are thought to have died in floods. Heavy rain has lead to flooding in Japan and China. In China the floods have affected 15 million people, and over a hundred people are missing. In Myanmar rescue operations are continuing, 5 days after a mine collapsed killing over 170 people.

In the Australian city of Melbourne people living in 9 apartment blocks have been told not to leave their homes for any reason. 23 cases of COVID19 were found in the residential blocks. Melbourne Premier Daniel Andrews said that it will be traumatic for the residents, but it is necessary…

“There will be no reason for any of those residents to leave their home. This is in many respects the most challenging issue we have dealt with throughout this entire global pandemic. I don’t for a moment underestimate how challenging and how traumatic in some respects, that will be.”

Americas

In the United States rapper Kanye West has announced that he is running for the presidency. In the past Kanye West has shown support for President Donald Trump, and in 2018 West visited the White House… West has sold over 140 million records and has a personal net worth of 1.3 billion dollars – half that of Donald Trump.

The Dominican Republic. At the time of recording this podcast it appears that the ruling party will lose this election. If that is true it will be the first time that the Dominican Liberation Party has been out of power in 16 years. Luis Corona of the Modern Revolutionary Party appears likely to be the next president.

The rest of Latin America quickly…

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus death toll passed 30,000 yesterday. Mexican President Lopez Obrador continues to say that Mexico must reopen, despite a fast rise in coronavirus cases. In Colombia reports say that 80% of intensive care beds are being used. The Colombian government has bought new ventilator machines, as cases rise on the Pacific Coast. And Argentina has extended its debt negotiation period again. Argentina received 57$billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund in 2018 – the biggest loan in IMF history.

Africa

In Mali president Boubacar Keita has met with Mahmoud Dicko, the leader of a protest movement asking for the president’s resignation. Tens of thousands of Malians protested last month demanding that Keita resign. People are angry at continued attacks by jihadist groups and inter-ethnic violence.

Algeria has buried the remains of 24 soldiers, 150 years after their deaths. The 24 Algerians were killed by the French army at the beginning of French occupation of Algeria, and their bodies were taken to France. The bones of the fighters were returned to Algeria last week and a ceremony was held on Saturday.

Europe

In Croatia there were elections yesterday. At the time of recording this podcast 60% of votes had been declared and the ruling conservative party HDZ had won the most votes.

And in the United Kingdom, scientists are trying to find a treatment for the coronavirus, using llamas. Scientists are seeing if llamas, the South American animals, could produce antibodies needed to prevent infection.

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 9

Reading Level: fairly difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 13-15 yrs. old

(Eighth and Ninth graders)

Huntington Beach Library ◯ Puzzle Me This, Puzzle Me That

Puzzle Me This, Puzzle Me That

Literacy Volunteers HBPL: 6.10.2020

Puzzle me this, puzzle me that … Today’s teaching tip is creating puzzles!

Puzzle Maker has a great variety. We love the WORD SEARCH because it’s a fun way to reinforce spelling and recognition and to learn relevant vocabulary.

Choose the size of the puzzle, type in vocabulary words, and your puzzle is created for you. For a tactile experience, copy it to a Word doc so you and your learner can take pen to paper.

Relevant vocabulary is everywhere: a book you’re reading together, today’s news items, the DMV manual, a magazine article or a book they are reading with their child. The only limitation is your imagination (and we KNOW there is no limit to that).  READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Readability Consensus

Based on (7) readability formulas:

Grade Level: 9

Reading Level: standard / average.

Reader's Age: 13-15 yrs. old

(Eighth and Ninth graders)

Free Virtual Workplace Experience Online Learning ◯ Edge Factor

Online Learning Is Easy with a Free Virtual Workplace Experience

@EdgeFactorShow

Edge Factor: 5.14.2020

Online Learning Is Easy with a Free Virtual Workplace Experience

As the 2019-20 school year winds down, COVID-19 is restricting students from exploring their options or allowing them to get out on Co-op or workplace tours.

In answer to this, Edge Factor proudly presents an all-new series of Virtual Workplace Experiences (VWE) to empower students to go behind closed doors and discover real-life work environments.

In the voice of an Industry professional, each Virtual Workplace Experience covers topics such as the equipment and tools used, typical aspects of the job, safety, technology and materials, and more. Each episode features a different company, including Niagara Parks, I-Cubed Robotics, Flying Colours, Brouwer Construction, and many more. The accompanying lesson plan equips educators to assess students’ prior knowledge of the industry, assess the information that students learned after watching the video and help students to create goals for their future career pathways.

FREE Videos & Lesson Plans

Any educator can click here to download the free weekly Lesson Plan and share the video with their students!  READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on (7) readability formulas:

Grade Level: 16

Reading Level: difficult to read.

Reader's Age: College graduate

SCLLN TUTOR ◯ LEARNER RESOURCES

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Easy English Times ◯ Free Online Access in Response to COVID-19

Easy English Times

Free Online Access in Response to COVID-19

Easy English Times: May 2020

The staff of Easy English Times understands that many schools and libraries are still closed due to COVID-19. Our print versions of the April and May papers were mailed as usual (unless you requested we do not send them).

Instant Activity: Conversation

Are you home watching more TV?

Talking about television

I. Getting warmed up

Almost everyone watches television. Different people enjoy different programs. Interview your partner and discover your partner’s taste in American TV shows.

1. What are your favorite television programs these days? Why do you like them?

2. Where do you usually watch television? When do you usually watch it?

3. Which channels so you watch the most? Do you have a favorite?

4. Is there an American or British TV series that you try to watch every week? Which one?

5. What television programs do you like to watch with your family?

II. Paraphrasing proverbs

1. Out of sight, out of mind. --American

2. In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. --Russian

3. Fame is a magnifying glass. --English

III. Discussing quotations: Do you agree or disagree with the quotations below?

1. “When television is good, nothing is better. When it’s bad, nothing is worse.”

--Nicholas Johnson (1934- ), former U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman

2. “I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.”

--Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American actor, comedian, musician, and writer

IV. Search and share

Search the Internet for a video in English taken from a current television show. Here are some websites which might be useful to visit:

hulu.com, imdb.com/sections/tv, netflix.com, or nbc.com/video.

Choose a video segment, watch it two times, and be prepared to discuss it with your classmates or tutor. It’s not necessary to watch more than ten minutes.

Answer these questions:

1. What is the show about?

2. Can you describe one or two of the main characters?

3. Where and when does the show take place? Is it set in our world in a fictional world?

Resources

Be counted

Easy, easy English

A salute to nurses

Citizenship

Student writing

Bear hunt

Instant Activities

Idioms

Reading

Writing

   READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Readability Consensus

Based on (7) readability formulas:

Grade Level: 6

Reading Level: standard / average.

Reader's Age: 10-11 yrs. olds

(Fifth and Sixth graders)