South Shore Literacy Council volunteers use custom-designed, one-on-one method to teach reading.
Since 1979, when a group of South Shore residents got together to train in a one-on-one reading skills method for adults, the South Shore Literacy Council has dedicated itself to bringing reading skills to anyone who wants to work for them. Read the whole article.
Vaudreuil-Dorion man honoured for his efforts to learn how to read.
Treldon James knew that his reading and writing skills were not where he wanted them to be. But it wasn't until his daughter, Keana, was about four years old that James decided he wanted to do something about it. Read the whole article.
A Lens on Learners
The Famous Red Pen
by James K. Forde
I want to shout the good news your way. I found a solution from remaining illiterate. I know you, the reader, are feeling that you're in the same boat too, but I have found a way out. I will tell you that I went back to school. Read the rest...Before and After
by Doreen Aubertin
Imagine not being able to read enough to help your children with their homework and knowing how to write only a few words. And looking up words in the dictionary is next to impossible. That was me, Doreen Aubertin, in 1996. I was so frustrated. It was like running down a dead end street. My mind was in a prison. I was a prisoner. I was lonely. I had a painful secret. I needed help. Read the rest...
Click here to read stories written and published by Carey Rigby-Wilcox, a lifelong learner from Saskatchewan..
Pour l'alphabétisation en français, veuillez-visitez le site Internet du Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphabétisation du Québec.
WELCOME! LVQ now has a new home. Our office is located at 1001 Lenoir, Rm A2-30 Montreal, QC H4C 2Z6. Phone 514-508-6805 or toll-free 1855-890-1LVQ
Celebrate literacy volunteers during National Volunteer Week, April 18-24, 2010.
So please enter and feel free to look around, learn about LVQ and our members, read what literacy students have to say, participate in a forum, discover new resources or just simply stroll through the various sections. We hope you'll come back again and again!
The greatest thrill I have ever had is to see the joy in a person's face when he first learns to read. I would rather see that than eat.
- Dr. Frank Laubach
In these years I had read everything I could lay my hands on to do with illiteracy. I knew about the helplessness in everyday activities, finding one's way or finding an address or choosing a meal in a restaurant, about how illiterates anxiously stick to prescribed patterns and familiar routines, about how much energy it takes to conceal one's inability to read and write, energy lost to actual living. Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful." - Natalie Portman
Learning creates variety in our lives. It opens new doors and broadens our choices. How do you learn best?
Postcards
Here are a few of our literacy postcards. There are more available!
