Lynn Wozniak attended the District Literacy Seminar. Lots of great ideas on how clubs can participate in literacy projects. Important to make sure that each age group is covered in literacy projects because there are different needs per age group including adults. One good way to improve literacy is leaving the closed caption on their viewing device so they can see the words as they are spoken. Ideas included: (1) Baby Bag with books given at hospital to newborn parents so they read to children at the earliest ages - some clubs shoot for "1000 books before kindergarten". (2) Migrant children summer reading programs, (3) Providing dictionaries, thesaurus, atlas, Constitution, magazines and weekly readers, (4) Volunteering to read at libraries and schools (5) Sponsor Spelling Bees or teams to attend Spelling Bees (6) Little Library and keeping them full (7) Reading Buddies connected with schools/libraries (8) Providing board games, card games, puzzles, etc. to schools (9) Supporting teachers to cover expenses for gift prizes and other supplies not supplied by the school (10) Participate in the Books for the World program (sending books to needy countries. Lots of discussion followed on our club's plan for Literacy programs. Over the next few months we will focus on determining our path forward. |