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Learning Piano and Learning to Read: Reflections from a CRW Tutor
At the Center for Reading and Writing at Seward Park Library, volunteer tutors work with small groups of students improving basic English reading and writing skills. Tutors are encouraged to reflect on...
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Aguilar CRW Opens with a Bang!
The Fall Cycle started at Aguilar Library's Center for Reading and Writing (CRW) on September 12, 2011! Thirty new students and six new tutors joined the excitement and will spend the next 12 weeks...
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Digital Photography at Aguilar Library's Center for Reading and Writing!
Learning to write through photography is one of the goals of Sol Aramendi, a photographer/educator who is currently leading a nine week "Literacy through Photography" class at Aguilar Library's Center...
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The Volunteer Experience at The New York Public Library's Centers for Reading...
First — a phone call or an Internet visit to nypl.org. This starts the process for registering to be a volunteer tutor at the Centers for Reading and Writing (CRW) at The New York Public Library. The...
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Pen Pals are Wonderful New Friends!
Students at Aguilar Library's Center for Reading and Writing are getting to know other students from around the city! They are pen pals with students in one ESOL evening class at CUNY's City Tech Adult...
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The Holiday Pen Pal Party
After three months of writing letters back and forth, Aguilar Library students and CUNY's City Tech students met one another at the holiday pen pal party at City Tech on Wednesday, December 14, 2011....
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From Masailand to Tompkins Square Library: A Journey in Literacy
Last year, Victoria joined a basic reading and writing class at Tompkins Square Library's Center for Reading and Writing. She agreed to speak with me about her experience so far and what brought her...
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Read for Your Life: Resources for Teaching Health Literacy to Adults
timsamoff on FlickrA woman came into the Library's Center for Reading and Writing, where she was enrolled in a basic literacy class. Visibly shaken, she pulled a staff member aside and confided that...
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Poetry Writing With Adult New Readers, Strategy 1: The List Poem
You have not crossed the bridges I have crossed. You have not listened to the music I have listened to. You have not been in the top of the World Trade Center the way I have been there. You have not...
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The Library Is His Toolbox
Geniene Monterrosa and Tommy Foday at St. George Library Center.After everything he has been through, Tommy Foday wasn’t going to let a snowstorm keep him from finally learning to read and write.Nearly...
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The Library is Helping Him Move Up
Haw King Cheng and Theresa Sheehan at Seward Park Library.For more than two decades, Haw King Cheng has wanted to learn English so that he could get ahead in his new country.Finally, thanks to The New...
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Poetry Fest at the Aguilar Center for Reading and Writing
If you think of poems as flowers, then the Aguilar Poetry Fest was an exercise in charming cross-pollination. Sharing was the thing. Students were seated in groups of about 6, where they read their...
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Back to Basics: Letter Writing at the Aguilar Adult Learning Center
At the Aguilar Adult Learning Center, ESOL students are getting to know other students from around the city! They are pen pals with students in one ESOL evening class at CUNY's City Tech Adult Learning...
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Diary of a Volunteer at the Aguilar Adult Learning Center
A guest post by Leslie Gilstrap.Some people are surprised to learn that adults don't know how to read. "How can this be?", they ask. How is it possible that someone can hold down a job or take care of...
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A.D.A. Visits Adult Learning Center to Discuss American Jury System
The Adult Learning Center classes of the NYPL are places where adult students study four hours each week under the guidance of professional staff and volunteers and work on their reading and writing...
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Jan. 26, 2015 - the start of a new cycle for the Adult Learning Center and ESOL classes throughout the 3 boroughs....Jan. 27, 2015 - predicted to be perhaps the most snow ever to fall on New York in at...
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200 Adult Literacy Students See 'Selma'
February is Black History Month, and what better way to celebrate it this year than to bring history to life (well, almost), through a screening of the movie Selma!Because of the generosity of an...
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Discussing 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to Learn and Live a Language
A student's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird marked up for reading aloudEvery Wednesday from 10 AM-1 PM, a group of ESOL students who were enrolled in the Upper Manhattan Adult Literacy program, but who...
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Learning to Read at Age 41
Image ID: 1269898It was June, 2006. The place was the Adult Learning Center at the Aguilar branch of the NYPL on 110th Street near Lexington, where more than a hundred students and twenty-five...
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Free Websites to Practice English at Home
Adults work on their English speaking, reading, and writing skills at The New York Public LibraryAt The New York Public Library's Adult English Language and Literacy Program, where adults work on basic...
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