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Happy Read Across America Day! Read Across America Day falls on Dr. Seuss’ birthday and is a day to encourage kids to get excited about reading. Below are 5 ways you can celebrate reading today. Read a book. Crack open a new book or an old favorite. Share the joy by reading a book aloud to a friend or family …
ABC 10 News recently put the spotlight on local literacy efforts in their “Project Literacy” special. The news segment emphasizes the need for literacy programming, noting that 560,000 adults in San Diego County read at an elementary school level or not at all. Among the featured literacy organizations are San Diego Council on Literacy, Words Alive, Oceanside Public Library, …
*Note: This narrative is based upon a San Diego Council on Literacy virtual visit to Words Alive, via Zoom! This past June Vichittra Chaleune M.A., Read Aloud Program Manager, Words Alive, gave the San Diego Council on Literacy a tour of the “Novel Ideas: Words Alive’s Interactive Online Gallery of Student Voices”. This exciting project features artists Jennifer Frost Moreno …
*Note: Zoom was used for this interview during this time of heightened health precautions. Cindy Dunlevy is the coordinator for the San Diego County Office of Education’s “Everyone a Reader” Program. She has been working with Everyone a Reader for 15 years. The program started in 1995 and works with about 3,000 kids every year. “That’s about 75,000 kids that …
In San Diego County, 24,000 children under the age of five will grow up in a home with no books. In response to this reality, the San Diego Council on Literacy is now partnering with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to provide books to children in our region. Almost a quarter of the entire population in San Diego struggles with …
Alexis Shenkiryk is a 16-year-old student at Pacific Ridge School in San Diego. She started the Pages and Pieces project this past March. While doing spring cleaning at the start of the Covid 19 isolation period, she realized that she had a lot of books. She also knew that there were kids who were learning at home and that some …
*Note: This visit with the International Rescue Committee in San Diego was back in early February, before health precautions were necessary. The International Rescue Committee in San Diego currently has limited opportunities to get involved and support the program. See their website for more details at https://www.rescue.org/volunteer-opportunities/san-diego-ca On a Wednesday morning participants are gathered in the Vocational ESL …
*Note: This visit with Traveling Stories was back in January 2020, before health precautions were necessary. Traveling Stories currently has opportunities to participate virtually! See their website for more details at www.travelingstories.org. The Traveling Stories’ StoryTent at the City Heights Farmers Market is a busy place on Saturday mornings. Children, parents, and …
Kristin Shea-Thiel, Reading Program Coordinator, shares a story about Daisy, one of the learners who attends their program: At the beginning of the year, most students start the program without much confidence when it comes to reading. They’ve been labeled as ‘below level’ and they know it. One of our students, Daisy, started the program last year as a 2nd …
Oceanside READS Learning Center is where adults can learn to read or improve their reading skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment. Oceanside READS offers one-on-one tutoring, literacy books and materials, family literacy programs, and access to computers. Literacy Coordinator, Chelsea Genack Eggli, shares a story about a learner …
