Literacy Connection schedules tutor orientation

This New Year, resolve to become a volunteer for The Literacy Connection, an organization dedicated to adult literacy. Many adult students are waiting for someone to share the special gift of teaching them to read, write and speak English.

The Literacy Connection will hold a free new tutor orientation from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5 at the Dundee Township Public Library, 555 Barrington Ave. in Dundee. Training workshops will follow from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 13, 14, 19, 21 and 26 at the same location. Missed sessions can be made up later or, in some cases, completed online.

Once trained, tutors are matched with a student to meet an hour or two a week, at a time and place of their choice.

Volunteers are needed to tutor in both Basic Reading and English as a Second Language. No special education is required. You do not have to know a foreign language. If you can read, write, and converse in English, a Literacy Connection student needs you.

For information, contact The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, visit the Web site at elginliteracy.org or come to the Jan. 5 orientation. The Literacy Connection, an affiliate of ProLiteracy America, serves adults and young children in 16 communities in the Elgin area: Algonquin, Bartlett, Carpentersville, Cary, Elgin, South Elgin, East Dundee, West Dundee, Gilberts, Hanover Park, Hampshire, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Streamwood and Schaumburg. Programs include English as a Second Language, Basic Reading, Family Literacy, Workplace Literacy and Summer Youth Tutoring.