Literacy

NEW Dates to Remember:

1. March 31, 2008 - DEADLINE for 4 Way Test Contest, details here.

    

2. March 2008, Literacy Month in Rotary (March 1st is World Book Day; March 2nd is Dr. Seuss day in the U.S.). Let's all do a literacy project this month.

    

3. April 1, 2008 Award submittals are Due, email to Gloria rekinghi@aol.com  Download submission form here.

Suggested Literacy Projects District 5000 Hawaii:

1. Hawaii Rotary Dictionary Project: Rotary club donates dictionaries to third grade students. Members of the club present the dictionaries to the children in their classrooms.  Dictionary 100 Club, recognition program for individual Rotarians contributing $150.00 or more to purchase 100 or more dictionaries for students

    

2. Keiki Vision Program: Rotary volunteers conduct vision screening for elementary age students. Purchase one set of eye charts and tests for $141.00 and receive a second set free from the Hawaii Optometrist Association. POC Dr. Randy Sakamoto Tel: 330-9256 or email sakamoto@visionhawaii.net

    

3. Rain Gutter Book Shelf Project: Rotarians installing rain gutter book shelves in classrooms to display children’s books “face out” rather than “spine out”. Students experience an increased interest and excitement for reading because of the more visible presentation of book in rain gutters. POC: Dan Bent 808-548-0080 or DanBent@FairMediation.com

    

4. Rotary Recycled Books and Magazines Distribution to Elderly Care Homes, Hospitals,  Prisons, and Children’s Hospitals

    

5. Books for Newborns: Presenting a book to a newborn child and its mother in the hospital after the child’s birth. The mother is also given instructional material to impress upon her the value of reading to and with her infant. Distribution by local Hospitals. Program encourages Parents to read to their young Baby. POC: Gloria King rekinghi@aol.com

    

6. Read to Me: Rotarians show up once a week to read with students who are at risk of falling behind due to reading deficiencies. In some cases the Rotarians form teams of 4 with each Rotarian reading for an hour once a month

    

7. Reading/Tutor programs: Usually begins with the local club partnering with a local school or after school program to provide reading buddies or mentors for students at risk. Most commonly the students grade school children. But some programs serve older youth or even adults.

    

8. Sponsoring scholarships for students

    

9. Assistance for student lunch programs

    

10. Purchase and donate Books and School Supplies to needy students and schools

     

11. Literacy Speakers once every quarter

     

12. Contest to improve writing skills

     

13. Suggest in place of speakers gifts, donate books in the name of speaker to your local school or library

     

14. Celebrate with your adopted school,  "Read Across America"...Dr. Seuss Day

     

15. Plan Vocational Days at High Schools, using club Rotarians to speak on their professions

     

16. Mentoring Programs for Students at Boys and Girl Clubs throughout America

     

17. Celebrate Teacher Day, recognizing a teacher for their outstanding work in Education

     

18. Literacy Recognition award to an outstanding private citizen who supports Literacy

     

19. Start a Reading program for Seniors

     

20. Four-Way Test Essay Contest

     

21. National Geographic Classroom Magazines for Students: Providing Students with issues of National Geographic explorer for kids

     

22. Concentrated Language Encounter (CLE):  Effective and proven program to quickly teach basic reading skills to anyone. It was pioneered abroad and is now being brought to the United States for use in attacking adult literacy. U.S. clubs and districts have the option of sponsoring CLE projects abroad or in the U.S.   District 7930 has enthusiastically endorsed for use in adult literacy projects in the United States. To find out more about what they are doing, contact the North American Area Literacy Resource Group Coordinator, Dick Hattwick, at richardhattwick@bellsouth.net

RESOURCES IN LITERACY

http://www.literacyproviders.org/index.html  A Rotary Fellowship of Literacy Providers.

http://www.cleliteracy.org/   The Rotary CLE Reading Program.

http://www.rotary.org/programs/service_opportunities/participate/literacy.html#ideas 

Official Rotary International Literacy site.

http://www.getreadytoread.org    Reading Preparation activities for children.

www.famlit.org   Reading activities and advice for families.

http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/ld/bridges/bridges.html  National Institute for Literacy training books and materials.

www.interdys.org  The International Dyslexia Association.  Multisensory Teaching article and others available on the site.

http://www.puesliteracy.org/index.html   “The ABC’s of Teaching Reading” available for downloading.  Easy to understand tools to help teach reading.

http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca/literacy/index.html  A resource to develop knowledge and skills in reading teaching.

http://www.getsmartoregon.org/  A grassroots literacy volunteer program

http://www.latimes.com/extras/readingby9/   A Child Literacy Initiative.

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/    The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a nationally representative assessment of literacy among adults (age 16 and older) residing in households and prisons in the United States.

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/default.asp   General literacy information.

http://www.caalusa.org/  General Adult Literacy information.

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/gateways/nav/top_nav/program/nls.shtml International literacy information- Canada.

http://www.reading.org/  An organization of reading professionals providing articles on literacy.

http://www.ncld,org/  National Center for Learning disabilities. A wide range of resources for teaching all levels of students with learning disabilities.

http://www.ldonline.org/  Wide range of resources for teaching students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

http://www.cal.org/topics/le/  Literacy Education resource.

http://www.literacyonline.org/index.htm  A resource on Literacy research and development.   Information on effective teaching of reading.

http://www.americanliteracy.com/  Literacy materials resource.

http://www.lacnyc.org/   Literacy Assistance Center

http://www.ets.org  Click on  Adult Literacy in the box on the left.

http://www.cls.utk.edu/  Supporting and advancing literacy education.

http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/literacy_day.html    A site full of literacy information.

http://sclln.org/statistics.html  southern California Literacy Statistics.

http://www.ciera.org/  A repository of early childhood publications.

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/choice/help/ses/index.html   For school aged children’s programs.

http://proliteracy.org/   Adult programs.