Literacy Link - Leamos
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Literacy Link - Leamos Newsletter |
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Fall 2008 Calendar of Events
Hats off to Reading! Red Hot Children’s Fiesta Penny Park 10 am to 2 pm
LL-L Board Meeting Sept 15 at 5:15 pm Public Library Meeting Room All volunteers are welcomed!
Learning Styles: What’s the Difference Tutors’ In-Service /Roundtable Sept 24 11 am to 1 pm
The Public Library is closed: September 1: Labor Day November 11: Veterans Day November 27-29 Thanksgiving Literacy Link – Leamos: A community of learners and volunteers dedicated to increasing literacy, reading and the love of learning throughout Grant County.
Literacy Link – Leamos is partially funded by the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy.
Literacy Link-Leamos 515 W. College Avenue Silver City, NM 88061 (505) 388-0892 literacylinkleamos@yahoo.com www.gilarangers.com/leamos.htm
Michelle Detterick Program Coordinator |
Learning Styles: What’s the Difference? Huge, I’d say! Does a picture or the writing make an imprint on you? At our next in-service…. Experienced educator and guidance counselor Ardene Rickman will present simple basic screening tools which can help us determine the learning style of individuals. The functions of the right and left sides of the brain will be discussed. …..Wednesday, September 24 from 10 am to 12 pm Meeting room of the Public Library Applying simple modifications of tutoring techniques and practices based on learning style during weekly tutoring sessions can yield huge gains for the individual. With over 20 years of experience in education in Grant County, Ms Rickman will have plenty of examples of modifications made with learning styles in mind. The in-service will conclude with a light lunch provided for all participants. This is an excellent opportunity to invite a prospective tutor to attend and become acquainted with the purpose of Literacy Link – Leamos. Please call the office and let us know that you are coming!
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TOTH: Tip of the hat One of the many acronyms found on acronymsthefreedictionary.com If you have found a great website to use while tutoring please share it with other tutors. Easiest way to do that: go to our website and click on link ‘contact us.’ Thanks!
Hats Off to Reading!
Literacy Link - Leamos will be participating in the 2008 Red Hot Children’s Fiesta, a family resource fair with activities, entertainment, informative displays, and food. This fun filled event will be held on Saturday, September 13, from 10 am to 2 pm. at Penny Park. Our booth space will include reading pointers for parents, a hat design contest* for families, publicity for LLL tutoring, and free books. Local youth will be helping us with this community outreach but your assistance is needed, too. If you enjoy visiting with folks, telling people about LLL tutoring and other projects and seeing the face of a child light up after finding ‘the perfect book’, then this is a great place for you! Call today to volunteer for an hour or two—and get ready to have a lot of fun!
*Morning Star has donated a $25 hat for the contest. Thank you!
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With Appreciation The proposal of Literacy Link – Leamos for the 2008-09 program year has been fully funded by the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy. We appreciate the support, excellent training, and financial assistance provided by its staff, volunteers, and board. Visit their website at www.nmcl.org for tutoring ideas, a list of literacy programs around the state, and facts and statistics about literacy needs. You are invited to the celebration of Literacy Day in New Mexico with first lady Barbara Richardson and John Corcoran, aka “the teacher who couldn’t read, on September 8, 2008 from 10-11:30 at the Capitol in the Rotunda in Santa Fe.
The Silver City Rotary Literacy Link – Leamos is one of six local recipients selected as beneficiaries of the biannual Rotary charity auction to be held on April 18, 2009. We will be working with the Rotary Club in support of this fundraiser. Contact LLL chair Linda Ferrara at 388-2531 if you are willing to help with ticket sales or donations for the auction. You won’t want to miss the entertainment and the special activities planned during the auction so mark your calendar now to attend!
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LLL Board
Thank you to our volunteers who serve on our board of directors. Their unique contributions of strengths and talents are really appreciated as they work as a team to fulfill our purpose: Increase literacy skills of individuals. TOTH: Jon George. Thank you for volunteering with Literacy Link - Leamos, serving as tutor, board member and officer, Love Your Library greeter, and so many other ways for the past 7 years. We wish you the best as you relocate!
Tutoring Groups Providing individual attention while adding peer mentoring and support is one explanation of the success of LLL’s tutoring groups. The groups have 3:1 learner to tutor ratio. Computer basics and keyboarding skill groups meet weekly on Tuesday afternoons. English conversational groups meet in Silver City on Monday evenings and Thursday mornings and in Santa Clara on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. We appreciate the tutors assisting with these groups: Gerald Ullery, Marilyn Berry, Bobbie Fisher, Olga Correa, Jessica Osuna, and Rees Madsen. If you are willing to help with a tutoring group, please contact the LLL office. We have groups of learners waiting for you! Upcoming Events |
Coordinator’s Corner Global Needs/Local Deeds
Literacy needs spread across the globe in all age groups. Literacy Link – Leamos will celebrate International Literacy Day throughout the month of September by reaching out locally to all ages in several different ways: Publicity blitz: free tutoring and English and computer groups Books for WIC Participants Literacy Workshop for Seniors Red Hot Children’s Fiesta Program Presentation at Rotary For more information about any of these events give us a call. I am in the office most mornings from 9 to 12 and Marilyn’s hours are Monday - Thursday, 2- 4:30 pm. We would be delighted to talk with you!
Fall really seems to be here with these days of rainy, cooler weather. Typically it arrives in October for us but nonetheless school has started once again. We have volunteers reading in each of the ten Head Start classes. If you are interested in substituting as needed by those readers, contact chair Barb Nelson, 534-9156, or the LLL office. I love the vitality of languages—growing and changing to reflect societal needs but relishing time honored verbiage as well. So, with that in mind I give a shout to the UPS drivers who have gone the extra mile of service and to LLL volunteers who have labeled the 6,372 books—the Kick-off for Project Read 2008-09. A special TOTH to Lani D and Barb! I hope you have had a delightful summer and you are now back in the saddle, spurs on, hat waving, and ready to move forward! Michelle |
