Friday, September 2, 2016

Redlands Library :: How to volunteer with Redlands Adult Literacy Program

How to volunteer with Redlands Adult Literacy Program
Redlands Daily Facts: 8.27.2016 by Diane Shimota, adult literacy coordinator at the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands.

Do you have a passion for reading or writing? Would you like to help someone learn to read?

The Redlands Adult Literacy Program provides an opportunity for you to pursue your passion with a purpose by becoming an adult literacy tutor. Volunteer tutors are the foundation of the Adult Literacy Program because they donate their time to support learners in their quest for reading and writing competency.

Let me introduce you to a few of these wonderful volunteers.

Martha Kennedy, a retired teacher from Redlands High School, has tutored with the Redlands Adult Literacy Program for five years. Kennedy, with Sharon Regalado, leads the off-site adult literacy program at Lugonia Elementary School where six tutors meet one-on-one with their adult learners each week.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events :: September 2016

Southern California & Statewide Literacy & Library Events
September 2016

SCLLN
Literacy & Library Events & Conferences
- Local, California and National –
Southern California Library Literacy Network
for more information
Southern California & California


Sep. 06   #ReadABookDay
Sep. 10   Sacramento Play Summit, Tsakopoulos Library Galleria 9a
Sep. 10   Autism Sensory Friendly Films KUBO 10a
Sep. 11+ Get Outside the Lines, Libraries Reintroduced  #GetOTL
Sep. 13   Roald Dahl Day
Sep. 13   Autism Sensory Friendly Films SULLY 7p
Sep. 17   Teen Book Festival, Pasadena Library 12N
Sep. 17   Family Day at the Park, Stockton
Sep. 17   Curiosity Day with Curious George
Sep. 18   Read an eBook Day
Sep. 22+ Fall into Fiction UCAAB, Carson CA
Sep. 24   Autism Sensory Friendly Films STORKS 10a
Sep. 25  Banned Book Week
Sep. 25  Orange County Children's Book Festival, Orange Coast College


Monday, August 29, 2016

Literacy Library Jobs :: Sacramento

Literacy Library Jobs – California

oversee the Adult literacy efforts for Sacramento Public Library, including Adult Basic literacy, English as a Second Language (ESL), and General Education Development (GED) tutoring, and the Career Online High School program. 


Riverside County Library :: To Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

Riverside County Library System to Increase Literacy Among Nonliterate Latino Adults

The Literacy Headquarters, located at the Louis Robidoux Library, has been selected as one of five libraries across California to pilot LeamosTM (Let’s Read) @ the Library.  Centro Latino for Literacy (Centro Latino), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, launched the project to bring its online literacy course to the state’s non-literate Spanish speakers, which number 573,866 (2009-2011 ACS, PERE pooled file).  The two-year pilot project is supported by a grant awarded by the James Irvine Foundation to Centro Latino to explore partnerships with public libraries. Greg Lucas, California State Librarian said, “In a state which in 2014 gained a Latino plurality, it seems at a minimum good common sense to encourage programs like Leamos™.  Without literacy skills in their native language, proficiency in English becomes significantly harder, if not impossible to attain.”

Public libraries will incorporate the use of Leamos™ as an effective strategy to both promote reading at its most basic level and to effectively outreach to Spanish-speakers in their communities. “Public libraries are a natural ally in fulfilling our mission of creating innovative solutions that transform lives through literacy.  Leamos™ @ the Library is the portal for nonliterate Spanish speakers to close both the basic and digital literacy gaps and to increase civic engagement,” stated Mari Riddle, Centro Latino President and CEO.  “Learning to read and write is ground zero. Many students have described learning to read and write as being able to see after a lifetime of being blind – ‘Ya tengo ojos (Now I have eyes)’”.  READ MORE @

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Literacy :: Idioms | APPS | ESL | Vocabulary | Videos

Tweet – Tweeter – Tweetest
Superlatives from SCLLN

6 Amazing Lists for Feelings & Emotion Idioms!







7 idioms almost everyone gets wrong




@RaganHealth  Aug 26


dietetic idiomatic schematic




Most common idioms used in the English language



List of 90 Colour Idioms With Meanings






Idiom Land
All popular English idioms in one app



@123wbt  Mar 22


90 Minutes of English Idioms
This video can easily serve as the
ultimate guide to popular English idioms!



Friday, August 26, 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar :: September 2016

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar
September 2016

For Local, California and National
Literacy or Library Conferences and Events
Southern California Library Literacy Network
Calendar

                                  Celebration  of  Literacy              Literacy Trivia Bee
                                              Newport Beach Library                 Upland Library

Sep. 01 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation South Bay Literacy, Torrance Library 7p
Sep. 03 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Rialto 10a
Sep. 03 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Yucaipa 12N
Sep. 06 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 12N
Sep. 07 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Fontana 5p
Sep. 07 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Mission Valley Library 6p
Sep. 08 Annual Celebration of Literacy Newport Beach Library 10a
Sep. 08 Adult Literacy Tutor Training READ/San Diego College Rolando Library 6p
Sep. 10 ESL Tutor Training Azusa Library 9a
Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training Literacy Center Thousand Oaks 9a
Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Yucca Valley 9a
Sep. 10 ESL Tutor Training San Gabriel VLC 9a
Sep. 10 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Chino Hills 9:30a
Sep. 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation READ/OC Library 1p
Sep. 13 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation READ/OC Library 6p
Sep. 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training San Diego Co Library El Cajon Branch 12N
Sep. 14 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Barstow 11:30a
Sep. 15 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Carlsbad Library 6p
Sep. 17 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Grand Terrace 10:30a
Sep. 15 Youth Literacy Tutor Orientation Words Alive SD 1p
Sep. 17 ESL Tutor Training Laubach Literacy Ventura 9a
Sep. 19 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation READ/San Diego Mission Valley Library 9:30
Sep. 19 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Redlands Library 6p
Sep. 20 SCLLN General Meeting, West Covina Library 10a
Sep. 20 Adult Literacy Tutor Training SB Co Library Hesperia 3p
Sep. 22 Adult Literacy Learner Orientation Huntington Beach Library 6p
Sep. 26 Adult Literacy Tutor Orientation Corona Library 7p
Sep. 29 Literacy Trivia Bee Upland Library Carnegie Cultural Center 6p

Beverly Hills Library Adult Literacylast 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
Statewide Workshops @ California Library Literacy Services

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Huntington Beach Library :: Blast Into Reading !

Blast Into Reading !
Open Doors: July/August 2016 by Susie Hodge Literacy Volunteers—HBPL

75 learners, tutors, literacy staff and friends of literacy gathered at Central Library to celebrate and acknowledge accomplishments during the past year. The room was decorated in traditional red, white and blue to evoke both the BLAST INTO READING theme, as well as the upcoming 4th of July holiday. Tutors received 5, 10, 15, or 20-year pins in recognition of their volunteer years, with Dionne Cox, former tutor and board member and current Library Board Trustee, was honored for volunteering 20 years with literacy services. Dionne continues be active with the program by spearheading the Duck-a-thon.

Thanks and congratulations to her and all the tutors who give so freely and generously of their time and expertise.

Learner awards included special pins and journals for those whose learners who worked extra hard throughout the year, participated in SCLLN's Writer-to-Writer Challenge, or earned their citizenship.

The annual June celebration of achievement culminates a year of hard work and dedication of tutors and learners alike. Goals are achieved in the form of getting a job, obtaining citizenship, reading a book or writing to an author. Literacy Services continues to strive forward as new tutors join the program with determination to transform one life at a time. A huge hug of thanks goes out to tutors and to their learners, whose lives are changed the moment they step over the literacy threshold.