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Nearly 50 adults on waiting list for literacy tutors
Nearly 50 adults on waiting list for literacy tutors
08/22/11 11:44 , Categories: Press Release , Tags: literacy, literacy awareness month, tutor, workshop Imagine life without reading. What if you could not fill out a job application, read the notes from your child’s teacher or understand the instructions on a prescription medicine label? One out of six adults in Tulsa County cannot read well enough to do these tasks.
September is National Literacy Awareness Month. You can help an adult learn to read by signing up as a tutor for Tulsa City-County Library’s Ruth G. Hardman Adult Literacy Service.
Currently, the literacy service has nearly 50 adults waiting for reading tutors. You are eligible to serve as a tutor if you are 18 or older and are a high-school graduate. If you’re interested in tutoring an adult, a four-part tutor-training workshop is scheduled from 5:45-8:45 p.m. on Sept. 13, 15, 20 and 22 at Central Library, Fourth Street and Denver Avenue. Preregistration is required. The registration deadline is Sept. 12.
Each trained volunteer is matched with an adult student to provide one-on-one tutoring once or twice a week. Volunteers are asked to make a one-year commitment to tutor. Tutors must complete all sessions of this workshop.
For more information or to register for the tutor-training workshop, call 918-549-7400 or visit www.tulsalibrary.org/literacy.