Handwriting Day :: Tutor Resources | Literacy | Reading | Books | Writing | ESL | ELL | Vocabulary | Listening

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Have you ever wondered why we still teach handwriting to young kids?

#dysgraphia #writing

@UnderstoodOrg Jan 27

#Jan23 #HandwritingDay!

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#Literacy!

#Library

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PEN PALS

@scllnliteracy Jan 23

Encourage good handwriting this #HandwritingDay

with our hands-on literacy resources!

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#LoveLearning

@LRUK Jan 23

#handwriting outperforms #typing and #digital #devices

on #student #writing skills

#education #literacy

@HEROESgifted Jan 18

Cursive may be making a comeback

because of—rather than in spite of— technology:

http://bddy.me/2hW1pcQ 

#edchat

@NEAToday  Jan 5

Strategies to Develop Handwriting and Improve Literacy Skills

http://bit.ly/2hsNMQU

@LDatSchool 16 Dec 2016

Why should our children still learn handwriting?

#literacy

http://bold.expert/writing-by-hand-helps-with-childrens-literacy-and-academic-development/ …

via @blog_bold

@noramarketos 7 Oct 2016

Handwriting fluency linked to poor literacy, read the story

https://goo.gl/AW9dmj 

#ICYMI #dyslexia

@SpecialWorldMag 28 Sep 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: February 2017

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar

February 2017

Writer To Writer Awards

Glendora Trivia Challenge

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

Feb. 01 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Fontana 5p

Feb. 02 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy Torrance Library 7p

Feb. 04 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Rialto 10a
Feb. 03 Evening With The Stars Literacy Recognition Dinner READ San Diego Library

Feb. 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ/San Diego Library 10a
Feb. 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 12N

Feb. 07 Youth Literacy Tutor Orientation Words Alive San Diego 1p

Feb. 09 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Crestline 12:30p

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library 29 Palms 9a

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Yucca Valley 9a

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Yucaipa 10a

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Crestline 12N

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Adelanto 12 N

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Placentia Library 1p
Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Adelanto 12 N

Feb. 11 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Santa Barbara Library 1p
Feb. 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Huntington Beach Library 6p
Feb. 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Newport Beach Library 5:30p

Feb. 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Huntington Beach Library 10a
Feb. 16 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 6p

Feb. 21 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Hesperia 3p

Feb. 25 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Luis Obispo Library 10a
Feb. 25 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego Co Library El Cajon 10a
Feb. 25 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Apple Valley 10a
Feb. 25 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Grand Terrace 10:30a

Feb. 25 SCLLN Writer To Writer Awards Brunch Radisson Hotel Newport Beach 10:30a

Feb. 25 Literacy Trivia Challenge Glendora Library 5p

Feb. 27 Adult Literacy Volunteer Orientation Corona Library 7p
Feb. 27 Adult Literacy Volunteer Orientation Ventura Co Library 5p

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

Literacy Library Jobs :: Yolo County

Literacy Library Jobs – California

Extra Help, Bilingual Spanish Library Associate: Adult and Family Literacy Coordinator – PT

Yolo Reads - Yolo County Library

volunteer intake and management, contact and resource for tutors and learners, curriculum development and literacy assessments, trainings, orientations, marketing and publicity, and grant management including data analysis and recording, budget spending, statistics, and demographics.

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Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund :: California State Library Foundation

Announcing the Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund

California State Library Foundation: 1.20.2017 by admin

The Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund

California Library Literacy Services (CLLS) is a state-funded program that was first implemented in 1984 and is administered by the California State Library. Many of our CLLS programs want to either add a Family Literacy Service program to their existing services, or expand an existing program.  Your donation to the Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund will make this expansion possible and give the gift of literacy to Californians most in need.

More about the Programs:

The California Library Literacy Services Program (CLLS)

English-speaking adults who struggle with basic reading and writing skills are the primary target of CLLS. Adult Learners are provided one-on-one or small group instruction by trained volunteer tutors based on each individual’s pace and goals.  Services are provided confidentially in the non-threatening library environment – crucial qualities in supporting adults who may lack the time or skills to attend traditional classroom-based programs.

Family Literacy Services

Approximately one third of CLLS programs currently provide Family Literacy Services. These services offer CLLS adult learners with children under age 5 additional instruction  in reading, selecting age appropriate children’s books, and using activities to promote the enjoyment of reading.

These more focused efforts ensure that children of low literate adults are better prepared to start school, reducing the risk of having their own struggles with literacy. With the Family Literacy Services program, children of adult learners also receive books to build home libraries, because having books in the home is an important precursor to academic achievement.

You can donate to the Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund here using the Foundation’s secure payment vendor. See “Kevin Starr Literacy Fund” under “Donations.” Or, you can send your donation to:

California State Library Foundation

1225 Eighth Street, Suite 345

Sacramento, CA  95814

Or, call us at 916-447-6331 and we can take your donation over the phone, M-F 9:30 – 4:30.

Please note the names of all contributors will be given to the family and mentioned in a future issue of the Foundation Bulletin. If you would like to remain anonymous, please give us a call or send an email to admin@csfldn.org.

The California State Library Foundation is a nonprofit corporation under the Internal Revenue Service Code 501(c)(3).

Thesaurus Day :: Tutor Resources | Literacy | Reading | Books | Writing | ESL | ELL | Vocabulary | Listening

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Photo Vocabulary – Iceberg

http://phocab.net/post/121830425936/an-impressive-iceberg-drifts-slowly-through-the …

#ESL #English #Geography #Education

@EnglishStudy Jan 20

Here are ten tips to help you build students’ knowledge of new language!

#Vocabulary #ESL #EFL

@TeachingEnglish Jan 17

Come and get it! New Stories of Words!

#free #literacy #ntchat

http://ow.ly/KHGb3081VFT

@freddyreads Jan 17

Extensive reading = increased vocabulary = increased fluency.

Richard Day makes the case for extensive reading:

http://oxelt.gl/2ju2WD4 

#ESL

@OUPELTGlobal Jan 11

Learn English Vocabulary:

10 Amazing English Flashcards Apps You Should Try

http://bit.ly/2e9xxZj 

#apps #learnenglish #esl #flashcards

@FluentUEnglish Jan 11

10 Dos & Don'ts For Teaching Vocabulary

In Any Content Area by

@TeachThought 

http://buff.ly/2iBa43C 

#edchat #engchat  #literacy

@MarzanoResearch Jan 6

Vocabulary Graphic Organizer:

A Quick & Easy Way to Teach Vocabulary http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/2016/11/a-quick-easy-way-to-teach-vocabulary.html …

#literacy #engchat

@EngageReaders  Jan 3

5 Words to Start Your New Year in Writing and Education

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#literacy #ela #ell #esl #reading #bookchat #engchat

@WritingwDesign 28 Dec 2016

San Diego Co Library :: How To Volunteer With LEARN

Now You Know - How To Volunteer With LEARN

countysandiego: 3.18.2015

If reading is your thing, take some time and help an adult learn how to read.

Volunteer with the San Diego County Library's Adult Literacy Program.

Kevin Starr, Author of California Histories and Former State Librarian, Dies at 76

Kevin Starr, author of California histories and former state librarian, dies at 76

L A Times: 1.15.2017 by David Zahniser and Matt Hamilton

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr entered this world in 1940 in a rare fraternity — a fourth-generation Californian whose family's roots dated back to the Gold Rush era.

After a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco, he found himself a graduate student at Harvard University, where he perused Widener Library's vast collection for  books about California. He realized something was missing.

“I thought, ‘There's all kinds of wonderful books on California, but they don't seem to have the point of view we're encouraged to look at — the social drama of the imagination,’” Starr told The Times.

Filling this gap would become his life's work, making him the state's foremost historian and one of its most revered public intellectuals. For half a century, he chronicled the greed, cruelty, enlightenment, innovation, vanity and sacrifice that took California from a place of Native American hamlets through Spanish colonization, entry into the United States and growth into a diverse powerhouse of technology, culture and trade.

Starr, a professor at USC and the former California state librarian, died of a heart attack Saturday at a hospital in San Francisco, according to his wife of 53 years, Sheila Starr. He was 76.

Starr captured the state’s rise in influence, and its singular hold on the public imagination, in “Americans and the California Dream,” a sweeping book series that moves from the Gold Rush into the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression and other distinct chapters of California’s past.

Throughout his work, Starr celebrated the state’s creativity and its openness to new ideas. And he demonstrated a familiarity with a vast range of topics central to the state’s development and its image of itself: architecture, agriculture, literature, water infrastructure and the entertainment industry, among others.

“He was the greatest historian Los Angeles and California ever had and ever will have,” said former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who hosts a book club that counted Starr as one of its original members.  READ MORE @