Carlsbad Library :: Literacy Book Club

Literacy Book Club Carlsbad Literacy Services

Learning Connection: May/June 2017

Our July book selection, Hidden Figures, includes the audio book!

Is your learner interested in participating in the Book Club? Our small and friendly group of participants are learners from our literacy program. We meet here every other month, so there are usually eight weeks to read the book selection before meeting to share thoughts and discussion.

Book Club selections are chosen with the adult literacy learner in mind and are sometimes Young Reader or Young Adult adaptations. Each learner receives their own free book and CD (if an audio version is available for that book) to keep. We hope you’ll join us! Sign up with the literacy staff.

Tips on How to Use Fiction with an Adult Learner

We have lots of new fiction in our collection. Here are some tips for using fiction in your lessons:

1.  Factors to consider when selecting reading material for your learner.

 Comprehensible to learner’s abilities and interests

 Reflect learner’s language needs and skills

 Address issues/topics relevant to learner’s lives

 Provoke learner’s thinking and discussion

2.  Topics to cover with learner before you begin to read with the selected material.  

 How to handle unknown words

 How to respond and provide feedback to discussion questions

 How to select topics for discussion

 Introduce terms: characters, plot, genre, structure, motif, themes, etc.

 If time allows, read the book first before you begin to read it with your learner

 Prepare topics/questions for discussion.

 Write down vocabulary and/or phrases to review with your learner

3. Tips to give your learner on how to read a book for discussion.

 Read carefully

 Imagine yourself in the story

 Make notes while you go – sticky notes are great for this!

 Think about what the author is trying to tell you, the reader

 Get to know the characters – think about their qualities, faults, and motives.

      Would you want to interact with them? Can you relate to them?

 How does this book relate to your own life?

4.  Different methods to use while reading the book with your learner.

 Learner listens to the book on audio

 Tutor reads book aloud to learner

 Tutor and learner alternate reading aloud

 Learner reads aloud

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Tutor Resources :: 5 Minute English | Anglomaniacy | ESL Reading Lessons | Film English | TED 4 ESL | Vocabulary.com

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Superlatives from SCLLN

5 Minute English

helping you learn English with short easy exercises

Anglomaniacy

lots of online lessons, activities, games, songs

and hundreds of printable worksheets

ESL Reading Lessons

lessons read online with  questions about what they have read

Film English

lesson plans designed around short films

TED 4 ESL

ESL lesson plans and worksheets that are based on TED Talks

Vocabulary.com

learn new words, play games that improve vocabulary, and explore language

Los Angeles Public Library :: Writer to Writer 2017

Writer to Writer 2017 Los Angeles Public Library Adult Literacy

READ - A newsletter written by students and tutors: Spring 2017

Wonderfully inspiring letters were submitted by nineteen learners from the Los Angeles Public Library Adult Literacy Program who participated in the Southern California Writer to Writer Challenge.

The “easy” part was to read or listen to a novel, work of non-fiction, or magazine article. Writing can be intimidating for anyone but these writers met the challenge and responded to an author’s words – thereby becoming authors themselves.

You are sure to enjoy these letters from three authors who were honored in their category.

Runner-Up Emerging Writer

Albert Short

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Runner-Up Intermediate Writer

Frank Marfetan

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

Runner-Up Advanced Writer

Hee Min Yim

Ariadne’s Story, Joyce Hannam

Ventura Co Library :: Carol Chapman Honored by International Literacy Association

Celebrate Literacy Award – International Literacy Association

Celebrate Literacy Award: June 2017

Carol Chapman, READ Ventura, honored by the International Literacy Association.

The Celebrate Literacy Award recognizes organizations, institutions, and individuals that have made significant literacy contributions at the local, state, or provincial level. The hope is that the celebration will familiarize the public with literacy activities in the community and call attention to the work that is being done by the schools and the International Literacy Association to promote literacy worldwide.

Tutor Resources | Literacy | Reading | Books | Writing | ESL | ELL | Vocabulary | Listening

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Superlatives from SCLLN

American History

Explore a little piece of history everyday with This Day in History posts.

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Breaking News English

Graded news lessons in 7 levels on current events.

ESL Holiday Lessons

Ready-to-print handouts for English lessons on holidays around the world.

ESL Made Easy

Daily and monthly noteworthy topics with related links to recommended ESL worksheets and activities!

Rhyme Zone

Rhymes Lyrics and poems Synonyms Phrases

Idioms Example sentences.

Orange Co Library :: READ OC :: Dear Paige Turner, Planning Ahead

Dear Paige Turner, Planning Ahead

My learner and I will be taking some time off from tutoring due to our families’ summer plans.

How can I encourage him to keep reading and learning while we are on a break for a few weeks?

READ WRITES: Spring 2017

Dear Planning Ahead,

It’s not too early for you and your learner to create a summer learning calendar to confirm any plans for time off from your tutoring sessions due to summer activities or vacation plans.  You can add special learning opportunities and events to your calendar that you and your learner may want to explore, such as the special Summer Reading activities and events at your library, fun travel activities to use while traveling, and other special events in your community.  (Blank calendar templates can easily be found online to create your own summer learning calendars.)

Don’t forget to check out the special (and always popular) summer programs at your library!  Special events and activities make for an extra special summer that can take you around the world, or travel through time, or to make believe places...all without ever leaving home.

You and your learner can also create your own summer reading challenges, such as trying an online reading adventure with e-books and other fun online resources available through OC Public Libraries website.

If you and/or your learner will be taking a vacation, consider some fun ways to keep reading and writing until you get back together. You can send each other short greetings on post cards or through emails, or keep a summer journal to remember and share new reading or writing challenges.

There are also maps to explore, brochures to read, and photos to share, all of which are great sources for reading and writing when you both reconnect at your tutoring sessions in the library, or enjoy at home with family and friends as you share your summer adventures.

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Corona Library :: Confessions of an Illiterate Adult Screening :: June 7

Confessions of an Illiterate Adult Screening :: June 7 – 7pm

Join us for a special screening of an episode from the Pivot Network’s Secret Lives of Americans in which Cleo reveals to her family that she can’t read. Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Corona Public Library.

Hear from John Zickefoose, member of the Board for the Corona Norco Unified School District, and former Adult Reading Assistance student. John will discuss his own struggles, how he has overcome them, and the continued work he does with the literacy community throughout the country.

Learn how illiteracy affects 20 percent of local adults, how you can help, and how to get help for someone who needs it.

Secret Lives of Americans is a groundbreaking documentary series that takes an unflinching look at the secrets people keep and the strength that it takes to reveal them to friends and family. In the adult literacy episode, Cleo will reveal her long-held secret to her family. The show will further the conversation on how viewers are impacted by the adult literacy issue in their own communities and provide ways to take action.

If you have any questions about this event please contact Betty Luscher at 951-736-2389