Thomas Edison’s Success/Failure Ratio
Thomas Edison Did you know? Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything” so his mother removed him from the school and taught him herself. Also, he … Read more
Spring 2017 Tutor Training – Sign Up Now!
Great Opportunity! Our next 2-day tutor training is scheduled for February 25th & March 4th 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, Severna Park and will include both Basic Literacy … Read more
Easy Ways to Use Technology in Class
This article is from Proliteracy’s Winter 2017 Notebook Have students look up new words using an online dictionary, such as www.learnersdictionary.com or www.dictionary.com. Many dictionary sites also have an audio button … Read more
Health Literacy Resource
MedlinePlus is a website from the National institutes of Health that provides health information in English and Spanish. The site also features hundreds of health topics, easy-to-read materials, drug information, and … Read more
Vocabulary Race Against Time Resource
Oneword is a free online tool that provides users with a single vocabulary word as a prompt and gives them 60 seconds to write a journal entry for their daily word. … Read more
January 2017 Message from the Executive Director
Happy 2017! Please take a moment to read about students Carlton Ricketts and Robert Smith, and check out valuable tutor resources listed below. Registration information is also available on our … Read more
Student Spotlight: Robert Smith
Robert Smith and his tutor, Barb Farrell Having reading difficulties is hard enough; dealing with the unfair, accompanying sense of shame is an even more devastating blow. Like so many … Read more
Tutoring the Challenging Student: Special Training 2/4/17
Mark Your Calendar Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 9 a.m. Occasionally, tutors will tell us something like this: My student can learn a word on one page, then forgets it … Read more
Why We Do What We Do: Carlton Ricketts
Student Carlton Ricketts and tutor Merlene Clarke When a tutor’s passion to teach is matched by a student’s hunger for learning, amazing progress can be made. Literacy Council tutor Merlene … Read more
IN MEMORIAM: AACLC Board President Bob Caspar 2012-2016
Jolene and Bob Caspar Bob Caspar, our passionate and enthusiastic Literacy Council Board President for the past 5 years, passed away on November 14, 2016. Bob is greatly missed! He … Read more