California Book Festivals: October

California Book Festivals

October: books, comics, poetry, storytelling, writing and more !

Big Orange Book Festival, Chapman Univ   Oct 11-13
Days & Nights Poetry Festival, Carmel   Oct 2-6
Humboldt County Children's Author Festival   Oct 17-19
LA Storytelling Festival   Oct 4+
Lit Crawl - LA (NoHo)   Oct 23
Litquake, SF   Oct 19+
Long Beach Poetry Festival   Oct 12
San Diego City College Intl Book Fair   Sep 30 - Oct 3

SCLLN Literacy Workshop Calendar: October 2013

SCLLN  Literacy Tutor Workshop Calendar: October 2013

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

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National Book Month (National Book Found no longer sponsors event)

Oct 2  Literacy Tutor Orientation = Huntington Beach Library @6:30p

Oct 3  Literacy Tutor Orientation - South Bay Literacy Co, Torrance @7p
Oct 5  Literacy Tutor Training - San Diego Co Library @10a
Oct 6  Literacy Fair = Ventura Library @ Prueter Library @10a
Oct 7  Literacy Tutor Training = Huntington Beach Library @ 6p
Oct 8  Literacy Learner Orientation = Newport Beach Library @10a
Oct 8  Literacy Tutor Orientation - Carlsbad Library @Noon
Oct 8  Literacy Tutor Workshop - Santa Fe Springs Library @6:30p
Oct 12 Walk for Literacy - Monterey Park Library @8a
Oct 16 Literacy Tutor Orientation = READ/OC @1p
Oct 16 Literacy Tutor Orientation = READ/OC @6p
Oct 17 Literacy Tutor Orientation = Newport Beach Library @10a
Oct 17 Literacy Tutor Orientation = Carlsbad Library @6p
Oct 25 Scrabble Tournament - Whittier Area Literacy Council @6p

Info about local Tutor Training Workshops is always Scrolling in the Right Frame.

National Education and Family Literacy Week - Part 2

National Education and Family Literacy Week
September 23 - 29

Raises public awareness of adult education and family literacy, assists adult learners in need of literacy services, leverages local resources, and supports increased access to adult education and family literacy programs. Use opportunity to elevate adult education and family literacy nationwide with policymakers, the media, and the community.

#AEFLWeek Twitter Fact Fest

Follow @NCLAdvocacy and #AEFLWeek
Tweet facts about adult education and family literacy. Raise awareness of adult education and family literacy. Share what you are doing to raise awareness and:

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Some SCLLN Facts - watch for more !

Azusa City Library Literacy
Violence, Crime and Literacy: What’s the Connection?  Did you know that —

60% of America’s inmates read below a fourth-grade reading level
   (U.S. Department of Education)
70% is the recidivism rate for inmates who do not receive literacy help in prison — but if inmates do receive literacy help while incarcerated, their rate of returning to prison drops to 16%
   (Penal Institution Records)
85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems
   (U.S. Department of Education)
2/3 of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare
    (One World Literacy Foundation)

Centro Latino for Literacy

congratulates 129 newly literate adults at their 7th Annual Manos Amigas/Helping Hands Celebration.

Corona Library

  Zickefoose was functionally illiterate, unable to read a prescription label, his children's report cards or a menu. He was diagnosed as a young boy with dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and didn't learn to read and write until he was 35.
  That's when everything changed. He became a poster boy for the Corona library's adult reading program, began to speak publicly about his own struggles and was named the library's literacy director. He founded a nonprofit youth organization.
  And on Dec. 7, Zickefoose, 52, was sworn in as a member of the Corona-Norco Unified School District Board of Education.

National Education and Family Literacy Week: Sep 23- 29

National Education and Family Literacy Week
September 23 - 29

Raises public awareness of adult education and family literacy, assists adult learners in need of literacy services, leverages local resources, and supports increased access to adult education and family literacy programs. Use opportunity to elevate adult education and family literacy nationwide with policymakers, the media, and the community.

#AEFLWeek Twitter Fact Fest

Follow @NCLAdvocacy and #AEFLWeek

Tweet facts about adult education and family literacy. Raise awareness of adult education and family literacy. Share what you are doing to raise awareness and:

ReTweet !

Some SCLLN Facts - watch for more !
Let’s Read, Altadena! was chosen to participate in a pilot project called Fam-Track which developed into the wonderful literacy program Families For Literacy (FFL). The FFL program worked with the entire family to enhance reading, writing and comprehension skills.

Azusa City Library Literacy

Health Literacy Learning is a program of the Azusa City Library, in collaboration with the Azusa Neighborhood Wellness Center and the Azusa Pacific University Department of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). Based on the belief that literacy is not an end in itself, but rather a catalyst to transform lives.
• In one California study, 65% of participants with low reading skills reported they avoid going to the doctor because of difficulties with paperwork; 75% of medical professionals said they were aware of medical errors that were the product of low literacy.

Centro Latino for Literacy: Manos Amigas/Helping Hands - congratulating 129 newly literate

Centro Latino for Literacy congratulating 129 newly literate
BlogTalkRadio: 9.20.2013 @ 6pm
by Latino Role Models - Success in Business

Centro Latino for Literacy is congratulating 129 newly literate adults at their 7th Annual Manos Amigas/Helping Hands Celebration.

Event is being co-chaired by Paul Garza, Jr., Centro Latino for Literacy Board Chair and Gil Vazquez, Principal at Vazquez & Company, LLP. For twenty-two years now, Centro Latino has been transforming lives by teaching literacy skills to non-literate Spanish speakers.

These 129 adults will graduate from the Leamos and Listos courses, where they learned reading and writing, math, grammar, and financial literacy.

Thanks to our major sponsors First Credit Bank Community Bank, Barker Management, Inc., CHAPA (CA Housing Assistance Program), Wells Fargo Bank, Telemundo, Union Bank, Southern California Gas Company/Sempra Energy, California Bank and Trust, The California Endowment, and Jeff Tsuji Design & Photography. Their support not only impacts our students’ lives, but it also impacts their families, workplace, health and the entire well being of the community.

Tweet Spots: Manos Amigas/Helping Hands

LBC‏@CalGoBears1h
@centrolatino graduation! @NCLR Affiliate that teaches adults #reading #writing #education #America #newlife pic.twitter.com/WuuFJYvelE

Centro Latino ‏@centrolatino2h
Inspirational and moving words delivered to our graduates by our keynote speaker @octaviopescador #MA2013 pic.twitter.com/NGfyzXZ8GL

Centro Latino ‏@centrolatino3h
Enjoying the wonderful company of CLL contributors with catering by @LaGuelaguetza #MA2013 pic.twitter.com/YdxBBByMqx

Literacy Tribune Newsletter: September 2013

Literacy Tribune: September 2013
The Adult Learner Network Newsletter

UnitedLiteracy, a non-profit organization, provides resources and support to adult literacy learners in the United States. Its aim is to make literacy education accessible and worthwhile for adult learners.


Main Story:
Simple Steps to Improve Your Credit Score by Kristina Bergner, Simplicity Bank

A Reason to Remember: International Literacy Day

Six Years and Running: With this issue, we enter our sixth year of publishing The Literacy Tribune, a publication of United Literacy.

A History Lesson:
“I Have a Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Technology Watch:
Computer Troubleshooting

By Daniel Pedroza, President & CEO of United Literacy


The Literacy Tribune is looking for adult learner writers.
Are you an adult learner ?
Do you want to write ?
Do you want to publish your writing ?


You can write about:
Your road to literacy
Your literacy organization
Literacy resources you like
You can write book reviews, poetry, short stories
You can write articles about health, finance, or technology
You can write just about anything !

Newport Beach Library - Literacy Day Celebrated

Literacy Day Celebrated in Newport Beach Library
Corona Del Mar Today: 9.12.2013

Life in Newport Beach without the skills to communicate in English left one woman feeling like a hamster running on a wheel in a cage. Another woman described endless days surfing the Internet, too uncomfortable to step foot outside her home. Another said she spent her entire childhood and part of her adult life finding ways to fool her family, teachers and friends into thinking she could read and tell time.

The women — all “learners” with the Newport/Mesa ProLiteracy organization — spoke today in the Central Library Friends Room as part of a celebration of International Literacy Day. A standing-room only crowd of about 150 people shared foods from around the world as well as literacy accomplishments.


Tutor Katie Northup  &

 2013 Hoffman Award

recipient, Marnalee Lopez

“Literacy is a hard word when you can’t read,” said Marnalee Lopez, who described trying to read a flier about literacy services 20 years ago. She studied for awhile, she said, then returned to the ProLiteracy program in Newport Beach when her triplets were in fourth grade.

“I realized they were becoming smarter than I was,” she said. “And that wasn’t going to happen.”

Lopez received the Rochelle Hoffman Memorial Award, given each year to a standout learner in the Literacy Services program. The award is named for a Corona del Mar woman who volunteered as a tutor before her death in 2004.  READ MORE !