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Riverside County Library Literacy Services Support Adult Learning From Home

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Valley News: 1.08.2020 

Approximately 32% of Riverside County residents’ ability to understand print material is considered “at-risk” according to a study by the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. Literacy skills increase the ability to read with their children, pass a driver’s test and apply for jobs online. Riverside County Library System Literary Services offers programs and services to close the gap and positively impact these daily activities. RCLS addresses the adult literacy gap with free community classes and one-on-one tutoring available to all Riverside County residents. Due to the pandemic, literacy services and programs are now offered online using video conferencing. Chromebooks and tablets are also available for checkout by enrolled adult learners.  READ MORE ➤➤

NEXT WORKSOP - VIRTUAL

Jan 13

3 pm – 4:30 pm

Phone 
951 . 685 . 6901

There are a few ways to become a literacy volunteer:

Adult Literacy: As a volunteer reading/writing tutor, you are the pivotal force in the literacy program's design to enable adult learners to improve their reading, writing, digital and other crucial skills.

English Language Classes: As a volunteer English Language tutor, you are the driving force to providing free and accessible English classes to non-native English speakers that helps learners improve job readiness skills as well as better connect with the community.

Family Literacy Events: As a volunteer for Family Literacy, you are providing adult learners, potential adult learners and their families vital early literacy and parent engagement support and strategies, which is shown to increase a child’s academic and life-long success.

We believe that your decision to become a volunteer tutor will be personally rewarding. Most experienced tutors have told us they believe they have received as much from the program as their adult learners. In this endeavor, Literacy Service staff are always here to support and assist you in any way we can. Please contact us whenever necessary.

Riverside County Library 2020 Virtual Literacy Classes

2020 Virtual Literacy Classes

Riverside County Library System

2020 VIRTUAL LITERACY CLASSES

Cuisine from Around the World

Sep 17, 6:00PM - 7:30PM

travel the world to explore and discover some of the world's most amazing cuisines and dishes. Collect your favorite ones and create your very own World Cookbook to use at home with family and friends! Complete a PowerPoint workbook full of fun, engaging, and educational activities

Bilingual Citizenship Preparation Class

Sep 18, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

provides preparation for the U.S. Citizenship test and interview and will take place weekly through Zoom.

Family Learning Place

Sep 18, 6:30PM - 7:15PM

This class provides parents and caregivers support with different family topics, such as Health & Wellness and other as-needed family topics.

Virtual Conversation Club

Sep 19, 1:00PM - 2:30PM

This course provides English-speaking and listening practice, vocabulary development and some reading/writing practice.

ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM

Riverside County Library System Adult Literacy Program provides FREE adult reading and writing services to adults 16 years or older in our communities through one-on-one and group reading and writing tutoring, English Language classes and family literacy events.

The program is supported by funding from the California Library Literacy Services, the California State Department of Education, Riverside County, private organizations and businesses in our communities, and through the generous support of our many volunteers throughout the County.

October Training – Virtual - 3-Part

October 9 - October 16 - October 23

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Robidoux Library

5840 Mission Blvd

Phone:  951 . 685 . 6901

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Automatic Readability Checker

Readability Consensus

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 14

Reading Level: difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 21-22 yrs. old (college level)

Riverside County Library ◯ Family Literacy Program

Family Literacy Program

Riverside County Library

The family literacy program at the Riverside County Library System’s Literacy Services is the newest addition to our program offerings thanks to the California Library Literacy Services generous support. This program provides literacy support to adult learners and their families to increase literacy skills across generations.

Family Programming

Libraries throughout Riverside County will be hosting different family literacy events and workshops, which include the following programs:

Family Literacy Hour

– This program offers an overview of the importance of early reading, shared reading strategies, and at-home literacy activity ideas.

Literacy and Loteria

– This program offers four weekly workshops for parents and caregivers on the following topics: Family Goal Setting

◆ Sparking Conversations with Your Family

◆ Shared Book Reading

◆ Taking Reading Outside the Cover

◆ Raising a Reader

– This program is offered during a library’s story time by providing a books for children and families to take home and read together over a period of a few months.

◆ The Lit Café

– This program offers more in-depth literacy workshop skills for both caregivers and their child.  READ MORE ➤➤

Automatic Readability Checker

Readability Consensus

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 20

Reading Level: very difficult to read.

Reader's Age: College graduate

Literacy Library Jobs – California :: Riverside County

Literacy Library Jobs – California

Family Literacy Coordinator – FT

Riverside County Library (Library Systems & Services)

plan, develop and implement literacy and early childhood development services and programs

DEADLINE:  OPEN

Educational & Literacy Recreation Leader - PT

Redwood City Library

support and assist our Literacy Student Tutor Coordinators and Literacy Staff

offering educational activities, tutoring and performing clerical tasks

DEADLINE: OPEN

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Library Jobs in California

Southern California Library Cooperative

Learning Spanish First :: California Libraries Pilot Unique Literacy Program - Cathay Reta : American Libraries

Learning Spanish First

California libraries pilot unique literacy program

American Libraries: 5.01.2018 by Cathay Reta

At age 7, Efren Sanchez got separated from his mother in the crowd at a Mexico City festival and wound up living on the streets. He never went to school or learned to read. In his early 30s he moved to the US. Now, at age 52, Sanchez has learned to read and write in Spanish. He was one of the first adults to enroll in the Leamos course at the Louis Robidoux branch of the Riverside County (Calif.) Library System.

Leamos is a licensed online course geared to adult learners. Typically, learners need assistance logging into the course but, with practice using the mouse, they soon become adept using it alone. A virtual instructor takes them through 46 lessons to learn how to read and write basic Spanish. Some libraries set class times in their computer labs, some provide volunteer tutors to work with learners, and others involve library staff to provide needed support. Learners can also study at home or anywhere that has internet access after becoming comfortable with the course.

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Leamos @ the Library was developed with two goals: to teach basic literacy skills to Spanish speakers, and to explore its effectiveness as a tool to reach nonlibrary users. The results? We reached 117 adult learners, more than half of whom (66 individuals) got their first library card when they enrolled in the program. Many became regular patrons and began to use other library services, as we had hoped. For example, since Santa Monica Public Library patron Maria C. (last name withheld) learned to read, she can hardly put a book down. When her brother-in-law asked, “What happened to your house? It’s not as clean as it used to be,” she replied, “Oh, now I’m reading!” In the summer of 2017, she read 20 books and received a Summer Reading Program certificate of completion.

While success stories like these have been repeated across the state, they have not come easily, and they have not happened in every community.  READ MORE >>

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Opportunity Knocking At Beaumont Library: Career Online H.S.

An innovative program allows adults over 19 to earn an accredited high school diploma, a career certificate, and prepare for college.

Patch: 1.29.2018 by Renee Schiavone

Opportunity knocked when Edwin Romero visited his hometown library. As his daughters sat quietly reading, Romero spotted a brochure about 'Career Online High School.'

"I'm 46 years old," Romero thought to himself. "But it's never too late to start."

Ten months later, Romero had earned a scholarship and become the first graduate of the Career Online High School program through the Beaumont Library.

Since graduating in 2017, Romero, a cable company installer, has set his sights on becoming a cybersecurity expert.

The Career Online High School program is also offered across the Inland Empire at branches of the Riverside County Library System and the San Bernardino County Library.

The innovative program allows adults over 19 years of age with a library card to earn an accredited high school diploma, a career certificate, and prepare for college.

Students learn in an online environment available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They're paired with an academic coach and a coordinator at the Beaumont Library.

Students may enroll year-round, scholarships are available, and while students work at their own pace, the program must be completed in 18 months.  READ MORE >>

For other SCLLN libraries offering the Career Online HS program,

check the member list on the SCLLN Blog

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Riverside County Library :: Coachella Literacy Push a Boon for City's Residents, Society

Coachella literacy push a boon for city's residents, society

Desert Sun: 2.11.2017 by Editorial Board

City and education officials are working together to help raise literacy and English language communication skills for residents who lean heavily on their more native Spanish. To those officials, we offer a hearty thank you and gracias.

Statistics show this is a major need in the eastern Coachella Valley.

As The Desert Sun’s Anna Rumer reported last week, 9 in 10 Coachella residents don’t speak English at home and nearly half don’t speak any English. This compares to about 1 in 5 in the overall U.S. population who don’t use English at all.

The lack of English skills leaves people at a clear disadvantage and other statistics bear that out. Illiteracy and poverty go hand in hand and, according to the Literacy Project Foundation, somewhere around half of adults – the majority of whom are people of color – have an income below the poverty level at least in part because of their inability to read, including three out of four welfare recipients.

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The city recently broke ground on a new, $11 million downtown library that should be up and running next year. Coachella – where nearly 32 percent of residents live in poverty and where only half have a high school diploma and just 4 percent graduated college – also is investing in its residents, setting aside $50,000 for library programs this year and planning to do the same next year.  READ MORE @

Riverside County Library :: 1 in 5 Riverside County residents can't read in English. Here's what the valley is doing to help

1 in 5 Riverside County residents can't read in English. Here's what the valley is doing to help

Desert Sun: 5.03.2017 by Anna Rumer

Inside Coachella's Cardenas Market, picking up groceries is English-optional.

One hot spring afternoon, as Latin music played through the supermarket speakers, a woman picked up a mango under a sign reading "frutas," bringing it to her nose to search for the scent indicating the fruit is at the perfect ripeness.

Nearby, shoppers were lured to Panadería Cardenas by fresh conchas and other kinds of pan dulce, or sweet breads, showcased in the clear display cases by the entrance.

Those standing in line to order fresh chilaquiles, a fried tortilla-based dish, and tacos de tripitas, or seasoned small intestine, from Cocina Cardenas, can be heard speaking in Spanish to one another, peppering their conversation with perhaps a word or two in English before returning to the language with which they are more comfortable.

In many parts of the majority-Latino east valley, you can easily go without needing to speak or read English. Many don’t. About 90 percent of Coachella residents don’t speak English at home, according to the U.S. Census, and 45 percent don’t speak English at all. About 20 percent of the U.S. population is estimated to be going through life not speaking any English, a designation that's fine with some of the people to which it applies, but others find that without a functional knowledge of English they have a hard time finding a well-paying job, navigating governmental bureaucracies and keeping up with the next generation.

As a whole, Riverside County is the 16th least English literate county in California, according to a 2003 estimate done by the National Center for Educational Statistics, with one fifth of its population lacking basic English prose literacy skills.

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In Riverside County, one of the challenges adult educators face are enclaves of people who remain illiterate in part because they live in largely Latino communities where one can get along without being able to read or write in English. This is why a large part of the Riverside County Adult Literacy Program focuses on teaching English as a Second Language classes, also known as ESL. Similar classes are also taught through institutions such as the Coachella Valley Adult School, College of the Desert and several churches throughout the valley.  WATCH VIDEO

Riverside County Library - Adult Literacy Program

Riverside County Library System Adult Literacy Program

Riverside County Library System Adult Literacy Program provides adult literacy services to our communities through one-on-one literacy tutoring, English-as-a-Second-Language classes and family literacy events.

The program is supported by funding from the California State Library Literacy Services, the California State Department of Education, private organizations and businesses in our communities, Riverside County and through the generous support of our many volunteers throughout the County.

The goal of the Families for Literacy programs is to introduce the adult learner and his/her family to the value and joy of reading as a family.

The underlying concept of these programs is that children who are talked to and read to by adults learn to read better and as a result break the cycle of illiteracy.

ANNUAL FACTS

175 Tutors Trained

150 Students Matched

60 Families Served

10,000 Instructional Hours

600 Talent and Support Hours

4 Full - Time Staff Members

Population of Area Served - 760,000

Number of Literacy Sites/Centers – 3

Riverside County Library :: To Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

Riverside County Library System to Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

Riverside County Library Press Release: 3.08.2016

The Literacy Headquarters, located at the Louis Robidoux Library, has been selected as one of five libraries across California to pilot LeamosTM (Let’s Read) @ the Library.  Centro Latino for Literacy (Centro Latino), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, launched the project to bring its online literacy course to the state’s non-literate Spanish speakers, which number 573,866 (2009-2011 ACS, PERE pooled file).  The two-year pilot project is supported by a grant awarded by the James Irvine Foundation to Centro Latino to explore partnerships with public libraries. Greg Lucas, California State Librarian said, “In a state which in 2014 gained a Latino plurality, it seems at a minimum good common sense to encourage programs like Leamos™.  Without literacy skills in their native language, proficiency in English becomes significantly harder, if not impossible to attain.”

Public libraries will incorporate the use of Leamos™ as an effective strategy to both promote reading at its most basic level and to effectively outreach to Spanish-speakers in their communities. “Public libraries are a natural ally in fulfilling our mission of creating innovative solutions that transform lives through literacy.  Leamos™ @ the Library is the portal for nonliterate Spanish speakers to close both the basic and digital literacy gaps and to increase civic engagement,” stated Mari Riddle, Centro Latino President and CEO.  “Learning to read and write is ground zero. Many students have described learning to read and write as being able to see after a lifetime of being blind – ‘Ya tengo ojos (Now I have eyes)’”.  READ MORE @

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 @

Riverside County Library - Amazing things stem from reading

Amazing things stem from reading

Desert Sun: 12.21.2015 by Greg Lucas, California State Librarian

Looking for a truly transformative New Year’s resolution that’s unbelievably fun and super easy to stick to?

Read.

Books. Magazines. Newspapers. Flyers. Online. On a park bench. In clouds. In libraries. Paper. Parchment. Braille.

Just read.

Any number of amazing things stem from reading. Not the least of which is gaining a better understanding of the world around us.

If there’s anything this world needs, it’s more understanding.

Read and change the world.

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Change the world. Change yourself: Resolve to read in 2016.

Riverside County libraries have plenty of options to choose from. The librarians who work there have plenty of ideas on which reading material might be of most interest to you. They’ll also have recommendations if you’re helping a little kiddo become a life-long learner by reading to them.

You can also help someone else learn to read better. There are literacy programs throughout the state. One-on-one volunteer literacy tutoring occurs at over 800 California libraries. All are eager for volunteers.  READ MORE @

Teen Read Week :: SCLLN Member Libraries

Teen Read Week :: Get Away @ your library

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Burbank Library

WRITING CONTEST through November 12!

This Contest is for Teens in grades 6-12.

Write a RETOLD FAIRY TALE four to six pages long (typed, double-spaced, 12 point!). Winners announced on NOVEMBER 19 at BOOK CAFÉ FEATURING CORNELIA FUNKE !

Camarena Library

Carlsbad Library

Escape the ordinary and Get Away @ your library with the help of some amazing books, and while you are at it, win some treats!

Read for Chocolate (Dove) Write a book review and receive a big chocolate bar at the reference desk.  For Grades 6-12.

LAPL

Oct 24: Central Library

Author Discussion with special guests, free books, activities, and snacks in Teen’Scape

Oct 23: Durant Branch Library

Young Adult Fiction Bingo (with prizes)! Put your pins in the States of YA map and discover how many states of YA Fiction you’ve read. Open to teens and pre-teens ages

Oct 29: Vermont Square

Get Away with Isabel Quintero speaking about her book GABI A GIRL IN PIECES which was a Morris Award Finalist.

Riverside County Library

Teen ReaderThon @ 3:30pm (ages 13-18) 

Join other Teens for a special ReaderThon

San Diego County Library

Kickoff

Battle of the Bands Oct 17 5pm

Lemon Grove Library

Cheer on some talented teen musical groups and soloists as they compete for prizes, and vote for your favorite. Refreshments will be served.

Oct 19: Share Your Book (All Day) Spring Valley

Oct 20: Spa Night 5p El Cajon

Oct 22: Drawing Class 3p Solana Beach

Oct 23: After-Hours Lock-In 6:30p Vista