Literacy Council of Prince George's County
WISH LIST: $50: journal notebooks to help 25 students build writing and organization skills; $250: textbook scholarships for 5 students; $2500: instructional software to help 100 students improve basic literacy skills
Far too many adults in Prince George's County know what it means to be illiterate. More than one-fourth cannot read, though they hide the problem well: they carry newspapers that they can't decipher and memorize routes so that they don't have to read maps. The Literacy Council of Prince George's County offers one-on-one tutoring, self-paced, computer-assisted courses, and high school diploma programs. For the large numbers of foreign-born residents, almost half of whom describe themselves as speaking English "very poorly," there is language instruction that incorporates grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and listening into important lessons about parenting, employment, and civics. For the 1,600 adult learners who studied at the Council this year, literacy was a means to an important end - greater involvement with their children's schools, higher education, increased earning power, independence. Your support can make it happen for immigrants, high school drop-outs, parents, and grandparents who have the capacity, but need the help, to be confident readers and navigators of their own worlds.
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