Camarena Library :: 5 Tips to Become a Better Speller

5 Tips to Become a Better Speller

Literacy Place: March 2018

Camarena Library Adult Literacy Services

1. Read:

It is almost impossible to become a good speller if you do not read. The two go hand in hand. The more you read, the more vocabulary you build and the more you will know how to spell different words.

2. Exposure:

Make sure to expose yourself to different types of texts. These include but are not limited to: newspapers, novels, blogs, magazines, books, etc. This way, your brain recognizes spelling patterns and is able to pick up on them more quickly.

3. Root Words:

Becoming familiar with root words is helpful since we tend to get confused with prefixes and suffixes, which makes spelling harder. Recognizing the roots of words will make spelling much easier.

4. Writing:

Writing frequently helps you spell more accurately. Usually, the more you write, the more you will be able to recognize which words “look right” and it will come naturally to you next time you spell that word. Having a dictionary at hand also helps to make sure it is correct.

5. Spelling Rules: Familiarize yourself with common rules:

• “i before e except after c”

• “The letter y preceded by a consonant changes to i before a suffix”

• “Most words drop the final silent e before a suffix beginning with a vowel”

• “When adding a suffix to a word that ends with a single consonant after a single vowel and stressing the last syllable in the pronunciation of the word, the final consonant is doubled.”

Adult Learner LINKS

Spelling

GameAquarium: spelling games

Interactive Spelling Bee: Grade 1-8 Grades 9-10 Grades 11-12

Spelling City: vocabulary and spelling

Spelling Worksheets: beginning & intermediate by subjects

Spelling Worksheets and Printables: by grade, topic; strategies, patterns

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: April 2018

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: April 2018

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

Apr. 22  Literacy Community Feud Fundraiser Monrovia Library 1p

Apr. 28  Walk Run READ Huntington Beach Library

Apr. 04      Adult Literacy Learner Orientation Newport Beach Library 10a

Apr. 04      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Fontana 5p

Apr. 05      Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy @Torrance Library 7p

Apr. 07      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library 29 Palms 9a

Apr. 07      Adult Literacy Tutor Training Glendora Library 9:30a

Apr. 07      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Hesperia 3p

Apr. 10      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Barstow 3:30p

Apr. 11      Adult Literacy Tutor Training Newport Beach Library Newport Beach 9a

Apr. 14      SCLLN Literacy Conf & Writer To Writer Awards Holiday Inn Buena Park

Apr. 14      Adult Literacy Tutor Training Literacy Center Conejo Valley Thousand Oaks 9a

Apr. 14      ESL Tutor Training Laubach Literacy Ventura 9a

Apr. 14      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Rialto 10a

Apr. 14      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Adelanto 12N

Apr. 16      Adult Literacy Volunteer Orientation Corona Library 7p
Apr. 18      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Highland 5p

Apr. 19      Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation READ OC Library Westminster 1p

Apr. 20      Adult Literacy Tutor Workshop READ OC Library Westminster 9:30a

Apr. 21      Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ San Diego Mission Valley Library 10a
Apr. 21      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Bernardino Co Library Yucca Valley 1p

Apr. 22      Literacy Community Feud Fundraiser Monrovia Library 1p

Apr. 24      Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Redlands Library 6p

Apr. 25      Adult Literacy Learner Orientation Huntington Beach Library 6p
Apr. 25      Youth Literacy Tutor Orientation Words Alive San Diego 12N
Apr. 26      Brown Bag Health Literacy w/ IHA READ OC La Habra Library 5:30p
Apr. 27-29 Adult Learner Leadership Inst ALLI Redlands Library

Apr. 28      Walk Run READ Huntington Beach Library

Apr. 28      Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego County Library El Cajon 10a
Apr. 28      Arts & Literacy Festival Santa Monica Library 10a
Apr. 28      Adult Literacy Tutor Training SLO Library 10a

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

2017 Writer To Writer Challenge :: Award Presentation :: April 14

2017 Writer To Writer Challenge !

SCLLN is excited to announce the winners and runners-up for the 2017 Writer to Writer Challenge !

We had a great response—86 entries—and the quality of the letters was amazing!  We are so proud of all of the learners who wrote letters.  Each letter was a beautiful expression of the learner’s thoughts and feelings.  The ones selected as winners and runners-up most closely met the contest criteria, but as one coordinator said, every letter had its own “pizzazz.” 

Please join SCLLN’s

adult learners, tutors and coordinators at the upcoming 

2018 Southern California Library Literacy

Network (SCLLN) Conference,

to be held at the Buena Park Holiday Inn on Saturday, April 14th.

We hope you will join us for the Writer to Writer lunch, if not for the entire conference, and listen as the winner from each category reads their amazing letter!

The winners and runners-up will each receive a cash prize and a certificate, and all letter writers will receive a certificate of participation.  We encourage all coordinators to invite and sponsor all of your writers and their tutors for this special event.  The registration fees are only $15 for learners and $35 for tutors/staff (early bird, SCLLN member) and are an appropriate use of CLLS grant funding.  Inviting your Writer to Writer participants would be an excellent way to recognize our writers and their tutors.  Congratulations to all of our letter writers!

Emerging Category :: Winner

Carmen C, Carlsbad City Library Learning Center

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

Runners-Up

Angella V, Huntington Beach Central Library

Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn’t Enough, Kay Warren

Rowshon A, Placentia Library

Eleanor Everywhere The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt, Monica Kulling

Beginning Category :: Winner

Nyla H, Carlsbad City Library Learning Center

First Grave on the Right, Darynda Jones

Runners-Up

Mohammad M, Santa Monica Public Library

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feyman

Magdalena O, Los Angeles Public Library

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Intermediate Category :: Winner

Elaheh K, Los Angeles Public Library

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Runners-Up

Ella K, Riverside Public Library

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

Maria A, READ San Diego - Central Library

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Advanced Category :: Winner

Juliana B, Huntington Beach Central Library

I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai

Runners-Up

Angelica G, Carlsbad City Library Learning Center

Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

Anonymous, Santa Monica Public Library

Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins

Early Bird Registration Fee

$35.00:  Volunteer or Staff

$15.00:  Adult Learner

Lunch only; $35.00 by early-bird for members

Early Bird :: DEADLINE :: March 30, 2018

After Mar 30 or @ Conference

$ 50.00: SCLLN Member Tutors and Staff

$ 20.00: SCLLN Adult Learners

Non-Members - $ 75.00

NO REFUNDS AFTER APRIL 9

If you would like to Sponsor the

Conference

Writer To Writer Challenge

or support SCLLN, please contact: Diane Moseley

Ventura Co Library :: NEVER TOO LATE TO GRADUATE New program available via the county library boosts the high school completion rate

NEVER TOO LATE TO GRADUATE

New program available via the county library boosts the high school completion rate

VC Reporter: 3.21.2018 by Michael Sullivan

Tammy Marquez, 52, of Oxnard, a single mother of four, has seemed to have a bit of good luck most of her life, at least when it came to working without a high school diploma. Though she dropped out of high school her junior year at Chatsworth High School after getting pregnant, she was able to manage pretty well the next 30-plus years of her life. It wasn’t until her position doing wine club sales, where she worked for six years, was no longer available and she didn’t get one particular job because she lacked a high school diploma, that she decided it was time to tie up that loose end. She did so by enrolling in Ventura County Library’s Career Online High School.

“I signed up to get a GED but it was difficult to get to class,” Marquez said. “I heard about this online and jumped on it.”

Marquez, along with five others from around the county in caps and gowns, accepted her high school diploma in the Topping Room of the E.P. Foster Library on Tuesday, March 20, the first graduates of the program. The online high school, offered by Ventura County Library’s READ Adult Literacy Program in partnership with Gale, a Cengage Learning company, has been around for about two years and the program takes about 18 months to complete. Marquez plans to pursue an associate’s degree and work toward providing child care for people with special needs, drawing from personal experience of caring for her 20-year-old son who has Down’s syndrome.

For 15 years, Carol Chapman has been the coordinator of the READ Adult Literacy Program/ Community Engagement. When the California State Library offered an initiative to implement the online high school program, whereby the county library was able to buy and receive matching scholarships for students wanting to enroll, Chapman jumped on it. The library accumulated 35 scholarships, valued at $1,100 each; and currently there 29 students enrolled, six of whom just gradated.  READ MORE >>

Huntington Beach Library :: Literacy Volunteers - Cafe Du Jour: Risking It All

Cafe Du Jour: Risking It All

Literacy Volunteers-HBPL News: Jan 2018

Our own Barbara Robinson, board member and Literacy Volunteers-HBPL volunteer who leads the Conversation Group, recently published a new novel, which is first in a series:  Cafe Du Jour: Risking It All (Cade Du Jour) (Volume 1 ). 

Prepare to get involved with these characters! A happy, successful couple leave their secure lives to take a chance on creating a second chapter for themselves. On the way, they run into small town corruption, crop circles, grudge-holding locals, and face other challenges while forming new friendships. Get a copy of her book to find out how these characters survive.  READ MORE >>

SCLLN Literacy Conference :: Writer To Writer Award Presentation :: April 14

SCLLN Literacy Conference 

& Writer To Writer Presentation

April 14, 2018

Holiday Inn Buena Park

Early Bird Registration Fee

$35.00:  Volunteer or Staff

$15.00:  Adult Learner

Lunch only; $35.00 by early-bird for members

Early Bird :: DEADLINE :: March 30, 2018

After Mar 30 or @ Conference

$ 50.00: SCLLN Member Tutors and Staff

$ 20.00: SCLLN Adult Learners

Non-Members - $ 75.00

NO REFUNDS AFTER APRIL 9

If you would like to Sponsor the

Conference

Writer To Writer Challenge

or support SCLLN, please contact: Diane Moseley

Check in and Continental Breakfast:  8:00 - 9:00

Strand 1:   9:00 am — 10:15 am

Strand 2:   10:30 am — 11:45 am

Lunch & Writer To Writer Presentations

Strand 3:   2:00 pm — 3:15 pm

Workshops

 W2W Panel; a how-to workshop for staff

 USCIS, The Naturalization Process

 Technology – How to get the best use out of apps

 Roles & Goals

 Tutor Panel – tips and tricks to get out of one’s comfort zone

 Writing workshop (repeated if needed)

 Pronunciation Practice (repeated)

 Setting Goals in a Visual Way, Learner Strand

 W2W Panel. Workshop on writing and entering the Challenge,

Learner Strand

 Additional topic TBD, Learner Strand

Redlands Library :: $5,000 Grant Helps Redlands Adult Literacy Program Focus on Writing Skills

A.K. Smiley Public Library

$5,000 grant helps Redlands Adult Literacy Program focus on writing skills

Redlands Daily Facts: 3.10.2018 by Diane Shimota, Adult Literacy Coor-AK Smiley Library

Many adults in the Redlands Adult Literacy Program ask for help with their writing as well as with their reading. They have found that writing is essential in communicating with their children’s teachers or applying for a job.

When adults lack writing skills, they face many obstacles. For example, some adult learners have reported that they have difficulty when filling out job applications or medical forms because of their limited writing skills.

The Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library recently received a grant of $5,000 from Edison International that the Redlands Adult Literacy Program will use to further enhance writing strategies used by tutors and learners. The grant will fund two writing workshops for tutors and adult learners, support the publication of an anthology of works by adult learners and their tutors and provide vital technology services to adult learners in the community.

The writing workshops have been developed in response to tutors observing that the learners demonstrated improved reading comprehension, but they struggled to reach their writing goals. Learners require writing strategies that are engaging, relevant and respectful to help overcome anxieties or learning disabilities. Many tutors had requested additional training in how to model, teach and guide adult learners of varying abilities and backgrounds through the writing process.

For this reason, Redlands Adult Literacy Program dubbed 2018 “The Year of the Writer” and is focusing its efforts to develop new strategies and tools to promote better writing for adult learners.  READ MORE >>

Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation :: April 24 @ 6 pm