Literacy Connection needs reading volunteers

Looking for a way to help your neighbors and volunteer close to home? Then become a volunteer literacy tutor with The Literacy Connection this spring.

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

The Literacy Connection will hold a free orientation for prospective tutors from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at the Salvation Army Service Center, 150 S. Kennedy Drive, Carpentersville.

Training workshops will follow from 6 to 8:45 p.m. April 6, 7, 13, 15, 20 and 22 at the same location. Volunteers can make up missed sessions during a later training series or online. Once trained, tutors are matched with an adult student for tutoring an hour or two weekly, at a time and place of their choice.

Many of the students struggle to read simple prescriptions, write checks or communicate with their children's teachers. You can help change that, and enable adults in your community to become more independent.

For information, contact The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, e-mail info@elginliteracy.org, visit www.elginliteracy.org or attend the April 2 new tutor orientation.

Programs include English as a Second Language, Basic Reading, Family Literacy, Workplace Literacy, and Summer Youth Tutoring.