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Literacy Month
International Literacy Day has been celebrated every September 8 since 1965 when it was first established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Many organizations, including Phi Kappa Phi, extend the celebration beyond September 8 and devote the entire month to literacy awareness. It also provides Phi Kappa Phi the opportunity to highlight its Literacy Grant recipients' outstanding projects!
Aquinas Literacy Center |
Creating a Lending Library for Adult ESL Learners - Located on the southwest side of Chicago, Aquinas Literacy Center offers individualized instruction in English as a Second language to adult learners. I like to read, but when I read a story to understand it well, I need to read it three times. The first time I find too many words that I don’t understand. I use the dictionary to know about these words. I write the meanings. The second time when I read the same story I know the words. I understand better the story. The third time I read the story, I understand very well. Now I can tell the story to someone. Click here for more. |
Augusta State University |
Literacy Volunteerism through Phi Kappa Phi - The Augusta State University Literacy Center serves 250 people each week. Children are at the heart of this initiative. Clients at the center are assessed, then tutored. Volunteers from Phi Kappa Phi, the community and ASU help select books and tutor familes. Click here for more. |
Brigham Young University |
Project Plant a Seed - In partnership with One Heart Bulgaria—a nonprofit organization that helps orphans in Bulgaria—Phi Kappa Phi volunteers supplied more than 700 children in up to 12 orphanages with a high-quality collection of books, complete with hand-picked titles appropriate for varying interests and abilities. Volunteers, orphanage staff, and interns from One Heart Bulgaria use these new books to help cultivate a love of reading in these children. Chapter members also held a literacy promotion course with each orphanage, presenting them with the new books and promoting a love of reading. Click here for more. |
Lock Haven University |
Student Library Ownership - In an effort to encourage students to take a more active role in their school library, Phi Kappa Phi members at Lock Haven University brought fourth grade students from Jackson Elementary School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania to the book store. While there, students selected and purchased books then donated them to their school library. I am overflowed with joy when people like you put in so much effort just for a field trip! (That shows you really care!) And one day, when I [am] older I hope I can be just as kind. Click here for more. |
Shippensburg University |
Sharing Stories and Building Relationships with Head Start Families - Two goals were to expand the library of Shippensburg Head Start and to provide children with books to keep. 125 children received 2 books each, with the remainder of the new books placed in the home-based program library which lends at least 1 book each week to home-based families. Given that 20 books were added to the home-based library, this project has the capacity to benefit current and future Head Start children. Click here for more. |
University of West Alabama |
Rock-n-Read Program - To promote early literacy, the University of West Alabama's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi partnered with Students in Free Enterprise to purchase baby board books. Three or four board books were placed in a tote bag, along with student prepared literature on the importance of reading to children from cradle to kindergarten. The 500+ tote bags containing books and literacy materials were distributed by Care Coordinators of the HealthStart Maternity Care Program (a Medicaid Agency program) to mothers-to-be in the Tombigbee Healthcare Authority service area. Click here for more. |
