Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County, Inc. is offering a new volunteer orientation for its fall season on Wednesday, August 11 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. The session will be held in the Pathfinder Conference Room at 34 East Bridge Street, Suite 301, Oswego.
Dear Jo is a critically acclaimed novel about a girl whose best friend is abducted by an online predator. The award-winning author Christina Kilbourne will give a presentation June 7 at the Tavern on the Lock. Christina wrote the first draft of Dear Jo at a novel writing marathon to raise money for adult literacy. […]
Reading First helps students learn to read. And when you start to cut Reading First, it doesn’t work so well anymore.
That’s the short version of a presentation on the reading program used in Hannibal’s elementary schools to raise reading scores. It was a key component of the successful effort to get Hannibal off the state’s “in need of improvement” list. […]
Your tax dollars have been hard at work adding new books on compact disc to the Oswego Public Library collection. In the last two months over 100 CD audio books have made their first bow on the shelves. “We had to move the audio book collection to a new area on the main floor,†said Librarian Edward Elsner. “There were simply too many titles for where we had them shelved.†[…]
The annual Summer Reading Challenge encourages children to read with their parents or by themselves for at least 15 minutes each day during the months of July and August, while children are on summer vacation from school. If completed, children receive a New York State Assembly Excellence in Reading certificate. […]
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