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Do you have suggestions for awareness-raising activities you would like to share to help promote Adult Education and Family Literacy Week?
Email them to ncl@ncladvocacy.org for posting here.
- Create an online social network to publicize literacy issues. For example, start a group on Facebook for specific classes or topics, such as helping people learn computer skills. You do not have to be friends with all of the participants in these groups, as groups can be public or private. Thus, it provides a way to reach students and a broader audience without others seeing your personal information.
- On Twitter? Follow @NCLAdvocacy and retweet facts @NCLAdvocacy posts in order to raise awareness of adult education and family literacy with your followers (and with theirs, if they pass it on!).
- Promote adult education and family literacy issues with K-12 educators on Twitter. How? Visit Teacher Reboot Camp for details on how to join the weekly Twitter #edchat conversations.
- Request a Twitter #edchat on adult literacy and parental involvement by sending a Tweet or Direct Message (DM) to Shell Terrell, Tom Whitby, or Steven Anderson. Then follow one of them or the #edchat hashtag to vote on the #edchat topic for the Tuesday EdChat. If adult education or family literacy is on the list, vote for it and participate in the Teacher Tuesday #edchat.
- Post a video of one of your adult education classes in action on YouTube.
- Connect your class online with another adult education or literacy class in another region or state. Use one of the National Discussion Lists in adult education to find a teacher and class by posting your inquiry to a discussion list of your choice.
- Find a place in your program where you can show a Twitter feed, such as the @NCLAdvocacy Twitter Feed, to your students and colleagues. You could also show the Search Twitter page on a screen, and put “#AEFLWeek” into the search field .
- Work with your program director to invite policymakers to your class to meet your students.
- Hold a contest with adult learners to write their stories: their successes and challenges with adult literacy, and their future goals.
- The ReadWriteThink.org website (www.readwritethink.org), developed by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English with support from the Verizon Foundation, provides lesson plans and activities for reading that incorporate technology and the Internet.
- Access ReadWriteThink SEARCH (at top right corner of homepage) to find a variety of innovative lesson plans for your grade level and topic.
- Use the interactive Student Materials (by clicking on the purple STUDENT MATERIALS tab) to have students create alphabet books, comic strips, flip books, and newspapers. Other online activities are available in this section.
- Check the ReadWriteThink Calendar (by clicking on CALENDAR from the homepage) to find literacy activities that relate to events throughout the year. For each event, there is a related Classroom Activity, in addition to lesson plans, Web links, and texts.
- Hold a writing contest for students or senior citizens, or a film contest for the best home video about reading.
- Recruit sponsors/mentors who will ensure that children have school supplies and an adult to read with.
- Invite students, parents, or guests who have lived in other parts of the world to read a story or to talk about classrooms in other countries.
- Students select countries, research essays on similarities/differences of literacy issues internationally.
- Be part of read-in chain that celebrates books written by authors of certain ethnic or cultural groups, like the Hispanic American Read-In Chain.
- Ask an adult learner involved in a literacy program to give a testimonial.
- Tap your students’ creativity for ideas about how to make the community more aware of literacy issues.
- Have older students make books to share with younger students or to donate to childcare centers.
- Invite a publisher to your classroom or school to discuss how books are developed.
- Ask a local bookstore to donate books to disadvantaged children or for reading contest prizes.
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