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2017 Annual Report

Through individualized instruction, Literacy for Life helps learners achieve their personal literacy-related goals in diverse areas such as employment, parenting, and citizenship. While working at Literacy for Life, learners:

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Maggie Lyreman and Yanli Wang
  • Registered to vote
  • Voted in November election for the first time
  • Wrote a resume
  • Got a better job
  • Started a pet sitting business
  • Finished the entire Interactive English series (reading, writing, listening & speaking)
  • Obtained U.S. citizenship
  • Complimented on her improved English by her employer
  • Obtained a library card
  • Wrote a note to her child’s teacher
  • Took her child to the library for the first time
  • Took a job as a substitute teacher
  • Passed the Virginia driver’s test  (written and behind the wheel)
  • Made a doctor’s appointment by phone for first time
  • Learned how to use the # and * keys when listening to a pre-recorded phone prompt
  • Told by her daughter’s teacher that her English has improved
  • Surprised her tutor with her first email
  • Learned to use an iPad
  • Improved writing skills
  • Greatly improved typing accuracy and speed
  • Passed 3 levels of an EPA certification course for using pesticides at a resort
  • Began a class at New Horizons
  • Learned 6 new English words today and how to count to 10 and recognize numerals
  • Learned how to spell and say her numbers, ordinals, months and days properly
  • Started dividing polynomials
  • Completed a research paper with citations
  • Passed the Virginia Placement test
  • Passed the Northstar Microsoft Excel digital literacy test
  • Passed all four GED tests
  • Passed the TEAS (admission test for RN program)

In November, 2018, Literacy for Life tutors reported:

RC is progressing nicely on reading and understanding. She is now comfortable with letter sounds and also numbers. We are starting to read children’s’ books so that she might be able to read to her children.

RM has a U.S.A. passport!

CF has found a job working at Publix. We are so happy!

DS stepped up to a different setting at CDR as a volunteer translator in a group setting. She listens to the instructor and then translate it into Spanish for the group.

JS worked on composition in English. He’s very good at it.

DW has been offered a new full-time job in her field. There is one thing that must be worked out before she accepts, but we hope it will work out for her.

LD has improved her reading and listening assessment scores in recent testing.

TH reported that he played a vocabulary game with his daughter and they thought of some new words for the game.

VE got a job!!

HL answered my questions about her Thanksgiving with several sentences at a time, which she then wrote down, and together we corrected any verb and article errors. She then read her answers smoothly. I asked her all about getting ready for Christmas, and she answered and wrote down her words and corrected errors and read them out loud. We discussed Christmas words that were new to her, like Christmas “carols and caroling,” Christmas stockings, etc.

SR  told me she had a conversation with a clerk at Walmart that made her feel that she has grown much more confident in her listening and speaking skills.

AO is preparing for school We are studying grammar, diction and pronunciation. He begins college in January.

FQ has completed the 3rd chapter of Q:Skills for Success 1. He has been especially practicing his sentences really well.

JN with Andrew Martin completed and submitted the application for the EMT Program in Gloucester. The classes will be held every Tuesday, Thursday, and one Saturday a month. The class orientation and CPR class are scheduled for Saturday, January 5 at 9am. The class starts on January 8.  JN has also applied for the EMS Scholarship; he is waiting for a response.

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