Welcome to Share Literacy
Mission and goals:
Our mission is to address and reduce the growing literacy gap between rich privileged and poor at risk children and their families. Share Literacy promotes the development of reading and thinking skills by partnering with established early childhood education agencies serving poverty-level and low-income families, with after-school programs and with organizations providing ESL and adult literacy instruction. Program goals:
Hoopoe Share Literacy & ACEE Provide Books
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A graduating class from Lucy Read Pre-K receives copies of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water. Looking on is Mary Ellen Isaacs, the director of the Americorps/ACEE program.
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Austin, TX: Through the generous support of donors to the Hoopoe Books Share Literacy program, Share Literacy and our partner ACEE were able to provide a copy of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water or The Farmer's Wife to children in the ACEE early literacy intervention program during the 2007-08 school year, and to over 150 parents who attended the parent literacy workshop series. (Read more...) |
Houston's GCCSA Head Start
Benefits with Share Literacy Programs
Houston, TX: Thanks to a generous grant from The Will J. Reid Foundation and the support of Share Literacy donors, the Gulf Coast Community Services Association's (GCCSA) Head Start Program will participate in two programs in 2008 for their 2,000 children and over 200 staff. The first workshop for the teachers was held on March 14, 2008, for The Farmer's Wife with Susan Josephs presenting. The 2nd workshop is scheduled for later in 2008 for The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water.
2007 Holiday Give-Away
Thanks to a generous grant that arrived just in time last December and to other private donations, we were able to donate over 5000 books to families. To read more about this, click here.
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Share Literacy Volunteer Chapter News!
To join a volunteer Share Literacy Chapter in your area,
or to start one of your own click here.
Right, Share Literacy volunteer, Dan Sperling, talking to a shopper looking for alternative gifts at the Takoma Park, MD, Alternative Gift Fair put on by www.aggw.org. Click here for Share Literacy Alternative Gifts. |
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Recently a guest reader shared the story, The Old Woman and The Eagle with a group of incarcerated students. Some had never heard a story read aloud, and most had never commented on what had been heard. Both “firsts” occurred with this story and what a extraordinary event in our court school library to hear at-risk learners brimming with enthusiasm and rich comments about a story from the other side of the world. The Old Woman and The Eagle resonated deeply with their own lives and speaking up with their thoughtful reflections allowed each of them to stand tall and touch that magic of human dignity that is deserved by all. A heartfelt thanks for bringing such depth to juvenile hall!
Jane Guttman
Library Media Teacher
Juvenile Court Schools
Central Juvenile Hall
San Berdardino CA
Since its beginning in 2000, Hoopoe Share Literacy has partnered with established literacy programs to provide books to more than 135,000 children in the US. See partner program for more information.
Jessica Nájera, playing the part of the butterfly in The
Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water, tells Share the Lion, played by Walter Requeno, that
the scary face in the water is his own reflection.
—Photo courtesy El Tiempo Latino taken at Rosemount Center, Washington, DC.
The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water teaches
the children higher-level vocabulary. Rosemount Center uses the book to teach
children to read and recognize words in both English and Spanish.
—Photo courtesy The Afro-American Newspaper