Newport Beach Library :: Literacy Bingo

Literacy Bingo Is Coming . . .

Newport/Mesa ProLiteracy

Literally Speaking: Mar/Apr 2019

BINGO is a classic game that most people are familiar with.

Did you know that BINGO actually dates back to Italy in the 1500’s? And it is still as popular as ever in schools, churches, community centers and now.... LITERACY.

From March 1st to March 31st all learners are encouraged to participate in a game of literacy BINGO.

Read, Connect, Discover challenges the learner community to read various genres, connect with other community members, and discover new experiences.

Orange squares = READ

example – read a memoir or biography

Blue squares = CONNECT

example – swap recipes with a friend

Green squares = DISCOVER

example – visit a local, state or national park

The Literacy BINGO challenge runs from March 1 – March 31, 2019.

How to Play

Pick up your NMPL Bingo Card from the Literacy office and make sure you are registered.

Complete 5 squares in a row (vertical, horizontal, or diagonal) to make a Bingo.

Write what you read or did in each square.

Raffle tickets awarded for each Bingo.

Drawings to be held each Monday from 3/11/19

Grand prize raffle ticket awarded for completing all 25 squares.

Bingo card entries accepted through

Have Fun

Enjoy reading books in your favorite format: books, eBooks, audio books.

Check out resources in the Literacy Office and library to complete a square.

Need help with any square? Ask a librarian.

Prizes

Raffle tickets earned for each Bingo achieved may be entered for gifts.

Grand Prize Raffle will be held the first week of April.

Tutor Workshop :: July 17 & 24

5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Tutors are required to complete online orientation (approximately 20 minutes)and attend tutor training. Orientation must be completed before attending the training sessions. Online orientations can be taken at any time.

You must complete and submit the online application at the end of the orientation in order to be scheduled for one of our Tutor Training sessions.

Easy News – June 2019 :: United Response

Easy News
June

Easy News – June 2019

United Response

Easy News (UK) is the first news magazine designed to be accessible for people with learning disabilities.

Features

Tragic fire at Notre-Dame cathedral

Deadly church bombs in Sri Lanka

Theresa May's resignation as Prime Minister

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange arrested

Quick news

New Royal baby

Climate change protests in London

First ever black hole picture taken

Previous issues

You can read every issue of Easy News, plus our Special Editions, in our archive

READ MORE >>

Carlsbad Library Literacy Services

Building Skills, Changing Lives

ws Radio Literacy for All: 2.12.2019 with Jose Cruz, CEO - San Diego Council on Literacy

We are joined by Carrie Scott, Community Outreach Supervisor for the Carlsbad City Library in San Diego County. Carrie shares her passion and adventures in her work at the Library Learning Center, a community learning center for all, and that, years later, is a jewel in the community that is worthy of replication.  LISTEN 29:54

Literacy for All radio show is here to enhance access to information and promising practices that support the national and international literacy network and those they serve.

Adult Literacy in the United States :: NCES 2019-179

Adult Literacy in the United States

NCES 2019-179 (US Dept of Ed) Data Point: July 2019

What are the rates of literacy in the United States?

Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013).

In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1). This translates into 43.0 million U.S. adults who possess low literacy skills: 26.5 million at level 1 and 8.4 million below level 1, while 8.2 million could not participate in PIAAC’s background survey either because of a language barrier or a cognitive or physical inability to be interviewed.

These adults who were unable to participate are categorized as having low English literacy skills, as is done in international reports (OECD 2013), although no direct assessment of their skills is available.

Adults classified as below level 1 may be considered functionally illiterate in English: i.e., unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms (OECD 2013)

What is the make-up of adults with low English literacy skills by nativity status and race/ethnicity?

U.S.-born adults make up two-thirds of adults with low levels of English literacy skills in the United States. However, the non-U.S. born are over-represented among such low-skilled adults.

Non U.S.-born adults comprise 34 percent of the population with low literacy skills, compared to 15 percent of the total population (figure 2).

Percentage of all and low-skilled adults age 16 to 65,

by nativity status: 2012 and 2014. FIGURE 2

White and Hispanic adults make up the largest percentage of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy, 35 percent and 34 percent respectively (figure 3).

By race/ethnicity and nativity status, the largest percentage of those with low literacy skills are White U.S.-born adults, who represent one third of such low-skilled population. Hispanic adults born outside the United States make up about a quarter of such low-skilled adults in the United States (figure 3).

Using the data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this Data Point summarizes the number of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy and describes how they differ by nativity status1 and race/ethnicity.

PIAAC is a large-scale international2 study of working-age adults (ages 16–65) that assesses adult skills in three domains (literacy, numeracy, and digital problem solving) and collects information on adults’ education, work experience, and other background characteristics. In the United States, when the study was conducted in 2011–12 and 2013–14, respondents were first asked questions about their background, with an option to be interviewed in English or Spanish, followed by a skills assessment in English. Because the skills assessment was conducted only in English, all U.S. PIAAC literacy results are for English literacy.  READ MORE >>

Literacy Reports & Statistics

Adult

2019: Adult Literacy in the United States, NCES 2019-179

2013: OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results-Survey of Adult Skills, OECD

2009: Literacy of America's Least Literate Adults, NAAL 2003

2006: Literacy of America's College Students, AIR

2007: Literacy in Everyday Life, NAAL 2003

2003: National Assessment of Adult Literacy, NAAL

2000: Programs for Adults in Public Library Outlets, USDE, NCES

1992: National Adult Literacy Survey, NALS

Huntington Beach Library :: Literacy Update - Spring

Literacy Volunteers-HBPL News

Greetings dear reader!

Spring 2019

It has been forever and a day since our last newsletter. If you've been staying in touch with us via social media, you'll know how busy we have been in the past few months.

On November 1, 2018 learners and tutors spoke on behalf of the literacy programs for our application for Community Development Block Grant Funds. One of our learners, Maribet, shares her speech in our newsletter. It is a wonderful reminder of why we are all committed to literacy and changing learner's lives.

"Welcome to our Oak View Branch Library. I hope you enjoy this wonderful day and continue to enjoy.  It's an honor to stand here in front of you and at the same time, a challenge for me to say these words in English. My name is Maribet. I am married and God blessed me with a son. He is seven years old and my son is the reason I decided to come to the library and learn English.

Why my son is the reason? I said to myself my son is growing up. He is going to speak English and I want to understand what he says. When my son started kindergarten, the homework they gave him should have been simple for an adult to be able to help him but I could not help him. Not because I didn't want to help him, but I didn't understand what he needed to do. And my son realized that I didn't know English. He asked me "Mami, why do you not understand English, didn't you go to school?"  READ MORE >>

Next Tutor Training

July 10, 17 and 24

Completion of online Tutor Orientation prior to registration is required

Email literacy@surfcity-hb.org for details

714 . 375 . 5102

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events :: July 2019

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events

July 2019

SCLLN

Literacy & Library Events & Conferences

- Local, California and National –

visit

Southern California Library Literacy Network

for more information

 Read an Almanac Month

July 02       National Literacy Day Proclamation 5507, 1986

July 03       PROJECT READ Report Form OnLine

July 08       Summer Learning Week

July 08       Slingerland Basics Class San Diego

July 08       Orton-Gillingham Training w/Ron Yoshimoto SF

July 08       Summer Learning Week

July 08       Slingerland Training SF

July 10       Clerihew Day

July 11       Bowdler's Day

July 12-28  Authors Booth @ CA State Fair A/B Building (CA Bldg)

July 17       PROJECT READ Sentence Structure OnLine

July 17-21  Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians SD Central Library

July 18       Comic-Con International San Diego

July 19       Sierra Storytelling Festival Nevada City

July 22       Slingerland BUILDING BETTER READING SKILLS Studio City

July 25       Scholastic Reading Summit Universal City

July 25       Wilson Reading System Introductory Workshop SF

July 25       National Storytelling Summit Fremont

July 30       Paperback Book Day

ALOUD: Library Foundation of Los Angeles  @ALOUDla

Los Angeles Literary Calendar  @LALitScene

Poetry Flash – So & No California

Storytelling Association of California

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: July 2019

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar

June 2019

July 2019

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

July 09  Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Orange City Library 5:30p

July 10  Adult Literacy Tutor Workshop Huntington Beach Library 6p
July 15  Volunteer Orientation Corona Library 7p
July 17  Adult Literacy Tutor Workshop Newport Beach Library 5:30p

July 18  Read OC Speaker Series Healthy Living for Your Brain & Body Foothill Ranch 2p

July 21  Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego Co Library Vista 12N
July 25  Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Riverside Public Library SPC Jesus S Duran Eastside 11a

July 27  Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Riverside Public Library Orange Terrace 10a

Altadena Library Complete a self-paced, online training module

Chula Vista Library Mondays @ 6p Wednesdays @10a

LAPL Adult Literacy volunteers receive 7 hours of Online Instruction

Local Tutor Workshops :: Always Scrolling in the Right Frame