Literacy Lubbock

Programs: Literacy lubbock volunteers and staff have provided over 5,600 hours ofinstruction to ged, esl, and adult education learners this fiscal year. Esl learners can speak english and relate their knowledge to others in the community as well as contribute to the lubbock area. Immigrants who are english proficient earn between 13%-24% more than immigrants who are not english proficient. Ged students can obtain jobs and seek higher education. Research conducted by brown university concluded that high school dropouts can increase their earnings potential from 5-25% by earning a ged. Other adult students can fill in the missing parts of their education giving them an improved self-image and allowing them to succeed. Family literacy - tiny totsfor children birth through 4 years old. Children are read a story each week and can take home the book to begin their own personal library. The weekly story times are conducted in local libraries and child care centers. Events are held at partner non-profit agencies to distribute books to children. These events are called books for breakfast. Gedliteracy lubbock provides individual volunteer tutors or small classroom instruction to adult learners who request our help to enable them to achieve their ged. By carefully matching trained literacy volunteers with adult learners in both tutor and adult learner paired settings and additionally in classroom settings, literacy lubbock is able to provide personalized study through high impact individualized prescriptive lessons, books, and training. English as a second languageliteracy lubbock provides individual volunteer tutors or small classroom instruction to adult learners who request our help to enable them to improve their english skills so they are able to enter the work force, attain consumer skills, increase involvement in children's educational activities, increase pronunciation, increase oral comprehensions and fluency, and obtain citizenship. Adult basic educationby carefully matching trained literacy volunteers with adult learners in both tutor and adult learner paired settings, literacy lubbock is able to provide personalized study through high impact individualized prescriptive lessons, books, and training for interested adult learners. If the learners show dyslexic tendencies, we can customize a program using the susan barton reading program.