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Project Literacy Newsletter Summer 2022 |
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Update for Learners on the Waitlist Thank you learners on the waitlist for your patience! We now have 10 new tutors so you will matched with a tutor soon. If you have any questions please reach out to Alex at avelasquez@sanleandro.org or at 510-577-3944 |
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Summer Library Program: Read Beyond the Beaten Path Sign up for this year's all ages Summer Library Program. It's not just for kids, adults can sign up too! You can participate online or in-person. Earn prizes and get entered into weekly raffle drawings by reading an/or by doing activities listed in the program. More information on the library's Summer Library Program webpage. To participate on paper: Come by the library anytime during our open hours to pick up your paper reading log. Tutoring tip!: The Summer Reading Program is more than just reading! Earn prizes for activities like attending a tutoring session. Tutors and learners are encouraged to sign up. |
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Color Printer/Scanner in Project Literacy We now have a color printer/scanner in Project Literacy. It is hooked up to a desktop computer, so you can print from that computer (no password needed). You can also scan and copy documents as well. Let Alex or Nicole know if you need assistance with the printer. |
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Pardon Our Mess in Project Literacy We're in the beginning stages of rearranging the Project Literacy space and receiving furniture shipments and book shipments. If you need help locating an item, please ask Alex or Nicole. |
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Farmers' Market at San Leandro Public Library
Every Wednesday from 3pm-7pm the Downtown San Leandro Farmers' Market will be hosted in the San Leandro Public Library's parking lot. Tutoring tip!: Take a field trip to the San Leandro Farmer's Market. Have your learner interact with vendors, practice food vocabulary, and more. |
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Family Survey Project Literacy has a program called "Families Read Together." If you are raising children 0-14 years old, Families Read Together can help your whole family! |
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Free Children's Books Project Literacy has FREE children's books for learners who are raising children 0-14 years old. We have different books to give away each month. You can choose to pick up your books at the library or receive them through the mail. Nicole is hard at work preparing books for delivery and pick up. If you haven't received your books yet, please call Nicole at 510-577-3976 or email her at nreader@sanleandro.org |
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Congrats, New Tutors! I'd like to express a warm welcome to our ten new tutors! Welcome aboard! |
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Zoom Reduces 1-on-1 Meeting Time, How to Work-Around ThatZoom recently reduced the meeting time for 1-on-1 meetings to 40 minutes. This article from Nerdschalk.com has tips to help you bypass the 40-minute time limit. Alternatively, you can switch to another online meeting platform that don't have meeting limits, like Google Meet, Skype, FaceTime, etc... Unfortunately, the library does not have the budget to provide tutors with paid Zoom accounts. Thank you all for being flexible with this inconvenience. |
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July 2022 Tutor Roundtable Planning
We're planning the next Tutor Roundtable meeting for July and I need your help setting a date! The meeting will be held in-person at the San Leandro Public Library with the option to Zoom in if you can't make it in-person. If you'd like to attend, please click here to vote for your preferred date for the July 2022 Tutor Roundtable Meeting. Voting ends on Friday July 8th at 5pm and I will announce the date & time of the meeting on Monday July 11th. The purpose of the Tutor Roundtable meeting is to provide a space where tutors can learn from other tutors and develop new tutoring strategies/activities to incorporate in their tutoring sessions with their learners. These meetings are optional and provide an opportunity for tutors to meet other tutors and share their experiences and activities. Please reach out to Alex if you have any questions. |
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Resource Spotlight ESLyes.com, a free English learning website created by an ESL teacher, contains over 1600 lessons for English language learners. The lessons come complete with stories and exercises, as well as audio clips of the story. |
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May Monthly Meeting Report Reminder Just a friendly reminder--if you haven't done so already!-- to fill out and/or submit your Monthly Meeting Reports for May 2022. If you use the spreadsheet version of the MMR, please contact Alex to get the link. |
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We (Always) Need More Tutors! Do you have a friend or know someone who would want to be a volunteer tutor? Send them our way and have them call 510-577-3944 to get started! |
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Hey Learners and Tutors! We need your stories! Give your learner the chance to shine and show off their writing skills. Submit a short article, blurb, story, poem, autobiography, recipe or anything else your learner may want to write about. We welcome tutors' stories too. Then keep a close eye on our newsletter....your learner may get published! |
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To borrow Project Literacy books, please come by the Project Literacy office during open library hours or call Alex at 510-577-3944 to schedule an appointment. If you're not feeling ready to venture into the library to choose materials, email Alex at avelasquez@sanleandro.org to do curbside pickup. |
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Book Suggestions for Purchase Do you know of a good book that Project Literacy learners and/or tutors would love? |
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Conversation Club On Hiatus At the moment, we are no longer holding Conversation Clubs. Learner attendance for our most recent Conversation Clubs has been too low to keep the program going. We hope that once we get more learners participating in Project Literacy, then we will be able to bring back the Conversation Clubs by September 2022. |
These are important links that tutors and learners use on a regular basis: |
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