Literacy Volunteers on the Green will be holding Tutor Training August 19th, 20th, and 21st from 6 to 9 pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, lower level. If you are interested in attending, please call us at 860-355-0830 to confirm that space is still available.

It is time again for our biannual Tutor Training Follow-Up Session. This will take place at St. John’s Episcopal Church, lower level on Tuesday, May 13th from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.

This is your opportunity to share your tutoring experience and receive helpful information. Arley Gray will be giving practical teaching tips and we are asking you to email any questions you might have or teaching techniques you would like discussed beforehand, so that Arley may address these. This session is provided for your support, to expand your teaching skills and remedy any areas of concern. We look forward to seeing you there.

Please R.S.V.P. as soon as possible.
860-355-0830
info@lvg-ct.org

The spring 2008 Motheread®/Fatheread Program begins April 2nd at Washington Primary School facilitated by Anne Maitland and Carol McCarthy. Dr. Gail Prelli, the schools Principal, assisted by Patty Johnson will read books, play games, sing songs, and do artwork with the children of the enrollees.

Each session will begin at 6:00P.M. with a light supper for all. At 6:30P.M. the parents will adjourn to discuss the evening’s assigned book which is broken into three sections: Literacy as Experience, Literacy as Art, and Literacy as Process.

The books being discussed this session are: A Chair For My Mother, Peter’s Chair, Where The Wild Things Are, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Bossy Gallito, and Horton Hears A Who!.

Motheread®/Fatheread is a research based learner centered literacy curriculum developed at the University of North Carolina in l987. It focuses on parents, as the primary teachers of young children integrating adult literacy, early childhood literacy, parenting and parent/child interaction. The class incorporates reading, writing, listening and speaking and provides parents with the tools to use the stories weekly to teach their children.

NEW MILFORD – (January 2, 2008) – Literacy Volunteers on the Green, the two-year-old organization that teaches English language skills to Litchfield Hills newcomers, has become a stand-alone corporation in preparation for significant growth in 2008 and beyond. (more…)