California Library Literacy Services
English Language Literacy Intensive (ELLI)
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Glendale Public Library

Components:

  • Expansion of Families for Literacy program
  • After-school program for children and their parents
  • Speakers invited to after-school program to discuss nutrition, safety, sports, and other topics of interest to the families
  • Targeted families matched with an Americorps volunteer who works one-on-one with the at-risk children
  • Give-away books for grade school kids include fun titles:
    • Boxcar Children series
    • Charlotte’s Web
    • Don’t Get Caught Driving the School Bus
    • Stuart Little
    • and more…

The Parent Institute — in depth, weekly training for parents.

Charismatic, bi-lingual, ELLI Grant Coordinator, Paul Boyd, interacts well with the kids and can hold the attention of these 4th graders while reading Mama Do You Love Me? In prior weeks, he read aloud from Harry Potter but found picture books more successful in holding the attention of the various ages represented in the room.

For this project, the targeted children have been identified by their schools as "at risk of non-promotion."

Glendale Public Library Contacts:

Mary Miller, Literacy Coordinator
Paul Boyd, ELLI Coordinator
Khafren Ruiz, Families for Literacy
(818) 548-6450

Glendale Public Library’s after-school program is something of a one-room schoolhouse. Though the program targets 3rd - 6th graders at three elementary schools, parents are encouraged to attend and to bring along younger siblings.

 

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