Literary Connection to hold free orientation

The Literacy Connection has many adult students waiting for someone to help them learn to read, write and speak English.

The Literacy Connection will hold a free orientation session from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Gail Borden Public Library's conference room, 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin.

Training sessions will follow from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Jan. 22-23, 29-30 and Feb. 5-6 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 for 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, call The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, e-mail info@elginliteracy.org, visit the Web site at www.elginliteracy.org or come to the Jan. 10 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.