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National Literacy Action Week
February 1st - 6th, 2010
A Week of Activities Highlighting Student Involvement in Literacy Programs
America Reads AND does Service Learning
February 1 - 5
America Reads tutors made posters, created reading character puppets, and did buddy reading during NLAW. The activities were designed to help tutors broaden their conceptions of literacy instruction and to help their students engage with learning to read and the importance of literacy.
Literacy Fun Packs: Make, Take, and Donate
February 1st, 4:30-6:00pm
Chapel Hill Teen Center
SCALE sponsored a literacy game "make and take" session at the Teen Center on Franklin Street. Tutors and volunteers from the community created board games for children to help them practice and improve their literacy skills. The games were given to parents to use with their children or to tutors for use at local elementary schools.
Di Phi Debate
February 1st, 7:30-9:00pm
New West - Top Floor
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies are a debate and literary society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They hosted a debate during the first day of NLAW on the topic Resolved:Literacy should be a prerequisite for voting eligibility. Society members and guests spoke and took queries for over an hour and a half, eventually rejecting the resolution by a vote of 4-12 with no abstentions.
America Reads Pit-Sit
February 3rd, 11:00am-2:00pm
The America Reads program pairs work-study tutors with local elementary students in order to supplement their literacy instruction. Tutors and mentors sat in the Pit to distribute information about the America Reads program and to discuss community literacy needs and ways to get involved.
Carolina Language Partnership (CLaP) Pit-Sit
February 4th, 11:00am-2:00pm
The Carolina Language Partnership (CLaP) offers free lessons to campus employees with limited English skills. The group sat in the Pit to recruit volunteers and to raise awareness about language needs in the community.
NLAW Virtual Conference
February 6th, 10:00am-3:00pm
Advocacy, Action, Awareness. The NLAW Virtual Conference, featuring sessions on health literacy, internet literacy, and literacy for English language learners, engaged participants from all over the country in dialogue surrounding literacy and social justice.
Contact SCALE for help with your NLAW application and/or events.
