Redlands
Adult Literacy Program learners enter Challenge
Redlands
Daily Facts:
2.20.2016 by Diane Shimota,
Adult Literacy Coordinator-AK Smiley Library
Writing
is a core element of the Redlands Adult
Literacy Program.
Recently,
seven adult learners from the Redlands Adult Literacy Program entered the Writer to Writer Challenge,
which is sponsored by the Southern
California Library Literacy Network. The annual Writer to Writer
Challenge invites adult literacy learners throughout Southern California to
write a letter to an author, living or dead, whose book has inspired them.
As
Carrie Scott, community outreach supervisor the Carlsbad
City Library and chairman of the Writer to Writer Challenge,
explained, this activity is a “goal bonanza.” It provides the opportunity for
learners to obtain a library card, select a book, check out a book from the
library, read the book, write a letter, edit the letter and submit it for review.
Participants
can attend a conference with fellow learners and describe their experiences in
writing to an author.
Scott
said that she loves that “every now and then, we get a letter where a learner
writes about reading a book to his or her child.”
One
of the Redlands entrants, Crystal Moreno, wrote to Malala Yousafzai, author of
“I Am Malala.” Moreno’s goal in the Redlands Adult Literacy Program is to
improve her writing. She said she wanted to challenge herself by entering this
contest and she found that her writing improved as she worked through several
drafts of her letter.
Moreno
was able to connect with the author because she also believes in the power of
education for women and girls. READ
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