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
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. Read the rest...
WELCOME!
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!
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
News and Events
TD launches new fund to advance financial literacy:
TD Financial Literacy Grant Fund calls for applications from community groups for millions in grants... Today, TD Bank Financial Group and Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI), read on....
RAISING FUNDS AND AWARENESS FOR LITERACY
The Quebec Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament - September 23, 2010. QELA is proud to be hosting the PGI in its 25th year in Canada and 10th year in Quebec. read on....