Literacy Link - Leamos
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Literacy Link - Leamos Newsletter |
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Spring 2009 Calendar of Events
Leaving a Legacy, Telling your Story LLL In-Service March 13, 9:30 to 11:30 am
LL-L Board Meeting March 19 at 5:15 pm All volunteers are welcomed!
NMCL Board of Directors Meets in Silver City and with Community Partners of LLL March 27, 1:30 pm
Rotary Auction April 16
Spring Fling TBA Annual LLL Tag Sale
All Meetings Held in the Conference Room of the Public Library
The Public Library is closed: April 10 and 11 May 23 and 25
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 |
Leaving a Legacy Telling your Story
All volunteers and learners are invited to attend our early spring in-service on March 13, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the conference room of the Public Library. Guest storyteller Muiriel Kirchmeier will present a story and the basics of good storytelling. Following a brief discussion about the language experience approach for increasing reading and writing skills, our second storyteller will be excerpts from Serafina’s Stories by Rudolfo Anaya. A variety of creative writing and expressive arts activities will prepare participants to share their own story, a personal legacy of footprints. Rudolfo Anaya’s novel Bless Me Ultima has been selected as the text of THE BIG READ locally. At our next in-service…March 13 The in-service will include hearty refreshments which will be available during and after the workshop for those who would like to stay and visit. Door prize: 1 ticket to the Rotary auction! This is an excellent opportunity to invite a prospective volunteer or learner to attend and become acquainted with the purpose of Literacy Link – Leamos. Please call the office and let us know that you are coming! ☺You are delightful to work with! |
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! To get started check out www.eslcafe.com/ and their great list of websites.
☺Wonderful, you’ve discovered a shortcut!
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Project Read 2008-2009
The ooooh’s were heard blocks away and the excitement was off the scale as Barb Nelson opened Sharks, one of the encyclopedia prehistorica books available to school age children at six different book distributions at local schools. These colossal pop-up books were enticing to reluctant readers of all ages as they were eagerly chosen, bagged for safekeeping, and stuck in backpacks heading home to share with families. I don’t know if any found their way to briefcases heading to a parent’s workplace the next day but one teacher reported that they had replaced the usual footballs brought to his classroom the day LLL volunteers visited his school! Project Read chair Caroline Baldwin and her dedicated workers have distributed over 8250 books to local children and families during the current program year. A big thank you goes to each of you!
A Brief look at the BIG PICTURE. …Project Read is designed to publicize our program through the label placed in each book, the interaction with volunteers and the public at distributions, press releases in local papers and media, and getting folks talking about us. Word of mouth is our number one recruiting tool!
☺You brighten my day!
“It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.” Whoopi Goldberg
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Tickets, tickets!!
Tickets Available for the Rotary Auction on April 18th from all Rotary members with the $20 price including a buffet dinner and entertainment. Sales from the bargain table begin the fun at 4 pm and everything goes to the highest bidder by 9 pm. LLL is one of six beneficiaries!
☺You’re doing a good job!
Tips for Tutors
Language Acquisition: the Basics
EXPOSURE To learn to understand and use a language, one must be exposed to it on a continuing basis over a long period of time before one can begin using it consistently.
USEFULNESS To learn to understand and use a language, the language must be functional and relevant to the student’s environment. He/she must be taught language that can be used. ☺Good for you!
CONTEXT To learn to understand and use a language, the language is most easily learned and remembered when presented in context.
ACTIVE LEARNING To master the basic structures of language, students need abundant opportunity to actively manipulate the language both orally and in written form.
☺That’s correct!
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BIG READ EVENTS
March 15: Literacy Alive, Luis Urrea. April 4:Kickoff and May 2: Wrap -up at the Silco Theatre from 1-5 pm (free) Activities throughout April!
Love your Library 2009
A big thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s LYL a huge success! We appreciate the work of Linda Ferrara throughout the year in seeking a great variety of book donations from publishers. ☺Good work, Linda!
Coordinator’s corner
As the spring winds begin to blow in earnest, I am reminded it’s time for a New Year’s Resolutions check. You remember those “woulda, coulda, shoulda and this year I’m gonna” promises we made as we turned the calendar to the new year? Oh, yes. My list is a bit different than the typical lose 10 pounds, gain 10 friends, and don’t forget to make your bed. The life philosophy of Garrison Keillor runs through my mind as I head out the door in the morning or peel potatoes for supper, serving as a daily check.
“I believe that every moment is there to be savored and to be improved upon and invested with humor and with beauty and solemnity. We don't ever get to skip a single part and sort of fast forward to the life still to come.”
Thank you for investing in the lives of others by volunteering with Literacy Link – Leamos. Michelle |
