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News Become a Volunteer Tutor: Open a New Chapter in Someone’s Life! An 18-hour workshop is scheduled to begin in Oswego again. Sessions will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays with an on-line orientation to be completed prior to the first session. Meetings will be held at Pathfinder Bank, 34 East Bridge Street, Suite 301 in Oswego. According to the National Institute for Literacy, one in five American adults struggle with everyday reading and writing. They have trouble filling out a job application, understanding medicine labels or reading a story to their child. Twenty percent of the adults in Oswego County have skills considered to be “functionally illiterate”. YOU can make a difference in their lives! Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County, Inc. is seeking adult volunteers to participate in a Tutor Training workshop in order to help us meet the needs of these individuals. ”Having tutors readily available when prospective students contact LVOC is a critical component of the program,” said Jane Murphy, Executive Director. “Tutors share that they get as much out of the program as their student does!” Volunteer tutors are the cornerstone of Literacy Volunteers and this training covers a variety of topics to help the tutors work effectively with their adult learners. A support network of experienced tutor mentors, computer lab instruction and LVOC staff are available to both learners and tutors. The sessions will train participants in several techniques of tutoring adults in basic literacy. This includes sections on teaching adult learners, strategies for teaching reading and writing and an overview of the study materials available for tutoring. Tutoring is done on a one-on-one basis. No previous experience is necessary. There
is a $25.00 fee to cover tutor training materials that the tutor
keeps for reference. Limited scholarships are available. For more
information about the training or to inquire about Literacy Volunteers
programs, please contact us via email at lvoswego_programs@verizon.net or call 342-8839 or . Literacy
Volunteers of Oswego County, Inc. is a member agency of United Way
of Greater Oswego County.
September 12 , 2007 Our Literacy Event and Family Fun Walk was a success! Over 30 people attended our first Literacy Event held on September 8th, 9am-Noon, at the Oswego Armory. Guest characters of ORC the Dinosaur, The Cat in The Hat, and Mother Goose visited with the participants and read stories to the children. Information booths were provided by LVOC as well as Oswego County BOCES, Oswego Public Library, United Way/Success By Six, and local bookstores such as The King's Business, the river's end, Backstreet Books, and Time & Again. Our grand prizes for the best storybook costume were a bicycle for the child winner, and a $50 Walmart gift certificate for the adult. They were won by Marsali Knapp for the best children's costume and the adult costume prize was won by her mother. Prizes were also presented to the Runners-up in our crowd, and free refreshments provided, thanks to donations from local businesses. We plan to hold another Family Fun Walk in 2008 and hope to see you there! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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