Annual Student and Tutor Awards Ceremony

At the end of every program year Reading Connections takes time to recognize special achievements by our students and tutors. This year the awards ceremony will be held on August 3rd from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the West Market United Methodist Church (just a few blocks from our office in Greensboro).

If you are a tutor and would like to nominate your student as Student of the Year, please contact Micah Guindon (mguindon@readingconnections.org) or Claire Dixon (cdixon@readingconnections.org) to obtain a nomination form.

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Phonemic Awareness Training

Does your student have difficulty hearing discrete sounds in words? Can he tell you that cot has three sounds? If not, then you may want to attend one of our Phonemic Awareness workshops and receive a toolkit designed to teach your student to become a better reader. Training workshops will be held throughout June and July in Greensboro and in High Point.

Greensboro:
Self Help Building, 122 N. Elm Street
July 15th: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
July 21st: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

High Point:
July 13th: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Reading Connections office, 919 Phillips Avenue

July 16th: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Millis Health Education Center, 600 N. Elm Street

To sign up for these workhops please contact us at 230-2223 or email Rhiannon Kelly for the Greensboro workshops (rkelly@readingconnections.org) or Claire Dixon (cdixon@readingconnections.org) for the High Point workshops. Sign up soon - classes are limited to 5 participants in each workshop!

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Movie-making Class for ESOL Students

Faith Action House is seeking students for an exciting course in movie-making starting August 1st! Teachers include two High Point University professors, two professional videographers and a minister who was a filmmaker in his former life. Faith Action House is looking for committed immigrants and refugees who want to learn a whole new skill set, or brush up on an old one.

The students will learn good storytelling for video, how to handle a movie camera, how to download photos from the internet. They'll learn photo editing, audio and video editing, as well as how to use Facebook/Flickr and YouTube. All of the students will produce a short film of one minute in English and in their own language.

At the end of October there will be a public film festival to show the movies to friends, family and the general public. The skills students gain in the class can be used to support their favorite religious congegation, service organizations or even family celebrations and events.

The class is free to all immigrants regardless of their citizenship status , but each student must commit to coming to all the classes for 12 weeks, starting August 1st, every Saturday morning from 9-1. Each class is packed with essential information about how to conceive, shoot and produce a movie.

The class is a partnership between FaithAction International House and the American Friends Service Committee with a whole lot of support from UNC-Greensboro, which is donating an up-to-date computer lab for our editing and post-production work.

If you know a student who would like to participate, please contact Micah Guindon at mguindon@readingconnections.org or 230-2223.

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Student Council

Student Council is a great opportunity for students who are interested in becoming a leader, speaking in classes and at events, giving back to our community, and/or helping to plan our socials and celebrations. Please be sure to inform your student of these opportunities to get involved:

The next Student Council meeting will be held Tuesday, July 21st from 5:30-7:00 pm in the 8th Floor Conference Room in the Self-Help Building downtown Greensboro. We will be discussing plans for the upcoming Student/Tutor Awards Ceremony and hearing a presentation on stress management.

Please contact Micah Guindon at mguindon@readingconnections. org or call 230-2223 if your student would like to be involved.

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Tutor Survey

Please take 5 minutes to respond to our tutor survey. Reading Connections is interested in your feedback about the program so we can continually evolve and plan to make the tutoring experience better for you and your student. If you are not able to access this or would like a paper copy, contact Rhiannon Kelly at rkelly@readingconnections.org.

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New ESOL Conversation Class Offered in Greensboro

We are pleased to announce that beginning Tuesday, July 14 we will now have a morning class time for our ESOL Conversation Group! The class will be every Tuesday morning from 10:00-11:30 am in the 5th Floor Conference Room. Don Parsons, an experienced teacher and volunteer from ECPI, will be leading the class. Please encourage your students to attend!

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Take a Tour!

If you haven't attended a Connect with Reading Connections tour yet, you're missing the whole picture! Reading Connections does so much more than one-to-one tutoring!

Come spend an hour with us and find out about the many community outreach programs we offer, hear moving testimonials from students and tutors, and learn about how literacy affects individuals, their families, and the community.

Tours are held at 5:00 p.m. staring in the 5th floor conference room in the Self Help building at 122 N. Elm Street in Greensboro. The tour lasts exactly one hour.

Dates of upcoming tours:
July 14th
August 4th
September 8th
October 6th
November 3rd
December 1st

If you'd like to reserve a spot on a tour, please contact Marcy Ray at 230-2223 or mray@readingconnections.org.

We are also happy to conduct "virtual tours" at your home, office, or church to help spread the word about the need for literacy services in Guilford County. Contact Marcy Ray to schedule an off-site presentation.

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Monthly Tutor Reports

If you are an active tutor, please remember to turn in your Monthly Tutoring Report, which is due on the 5th of each month.  If you have done so already, thank you!  You can submit these hours by email, mail, fax, or phone.  Call the office if you have questions about reporting your tutoring hours. Remember that Reading Connections' state funding depends on being able to demonstrate success. That includes the number of instructional hours per student. If we don't get your tutor reports, we can't record student hours and are likely to get reduced state funding. Please be sure to turn these in monthly!

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We are always interested in your feedback. Do you have questions or concerns? Please contact the office.

Sincerely,
Reading Connections Staff

Greensboro Office
122 N. Elm St., Ste. 520
Greensboro, NC 27401
info@readingconnections.org
Phone: (336)230-2223
Fax: (336) 230-2203

High Point Office
919 Phillips Ave, Suite 107
High Point, NC 27262
info@readingconnections.org or cdixon@readingconnections.org
Phone (336) 404-3474
Fax (336) 882-4142

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