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Don’t miss the magic!! Get your tickets now for Best of Stories that Soar!
Original Children’s Stories + Artistic Interpretation = Best of Stories that Soar! Join Literacy Connects on Sunday, May 20th for Best of Stories that [...]
On the Laps of their Parents – Reading to Baby
April 24, 2012 By TMC for Children His diaper is clean, his belly full, and he just woke from a nap, but boy, is [...]
Volunteers – You Are Appreciated!
It’s National Volunteer Appreciation Week, and we would like to thank all of the volunteers in Literacy Connects’ programs for your many dedicated hours [...]
My Literacy is my Children’s Literacy
Over the course of six weeks, three adult students from Literacy Volunteers of Tucson and three tutors created digital literacy stories. STORYTELLING is the [...]
Start the Habit Young: At some Southern Arizona clinics, books have replaced lollipops
Thanks Adam Curtis at Willcox Range News for this wonderful article about Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona – A program of Literacy Connects. [...]
Children’s stories are turned into hand-published books in Bisbee
Stories that Soar! has entered into the book making component of its program in Bisbee. Children from Bisbee, Naco, and Sierra Vista wrote stories [...]
Thanks Tucson for a record-setting show of support at Tucson Festival of Books!
Thanks to your support, Literacy Connects collected over 1,400 signatures for the National Right to Literacy Scroll at their tent at the Tucson Festival [...]
The National Right to Literacy Scroll comes to the Tucson Festival of Books
Literacy Connects will be collecting signatures for the National Right to Literacy Scroll at our tent (#300) at the Tucson Festival of Books on [...]
We have a dream, too
Another wonderful partnership was realized last week with Stories That Soar! at Holaway Elementary thanks to the beautiful creative work of the cast and [...]
Student Ambassadors visit the Arizona State Legislature
On February 16, a group of Student Ambassadors from Literacy Volunteers of Tucson and Pima College Adult Education visited the Arizona State Legislature. They [...]
Your Story Matters
Until February 8th, 2012, the Stories that Soar! Story Box will be collecting YOUR stories, poems, drawings and reflections on the theme of the [...]
Reading Seed Children’s Literacy Program chosen as 2011 Wings Like Eagles Foundation award recipient!
Reading Seed Children’s Literacy Program is thrilled to have been selected as a 2011 Wings Like Eagles Foundation award recipient. In December 2011, the [...]
“Life Can Change” – Marty, an adult emerging reader and writer, shares his story
Back in the years before I was in eighth grade, I was doing good in school. At first I was moving right along from [...]
Dr. Arthur’s Reading Corner: Common Questions Answered – Why Should My Practice Offer Reach Out and Read?
A pediatric and family practice office can be a busy place. The work schedule is usually full most of the year with well-child visits, [...]
“My whole life was structured around keeping the fact that I couldn’t read a secret.”
“I reached a point where my life was falling apart. I realized it all came down to this secret.” These were the words of [...]
The Tucson Festival of Books Young Author’s Competition is underway!
The competition is open to writers in pre-school through high school, so please help spread the word!! Deadline for entries is December 1st. The [...]
Giving children a chance to fall in love with reading
The eighth annual Story Town Family Literacy Festival was a great success as families from all over Tucson experienced the fun of books. Kudos [...]
Betsey’s Book Review – Bliss, Remembered
Have you ever enjoyed a book but been disappointed in the ending? Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford is NOT one of those books. It [...]
The eleventh annual STS! show (YES– 11 years!) at Sam Hughes was a huge success
The audience was filled with enthusiastic kids that submitted 711 stories, visiting pre-schoolers from 2nd Street, all the second graders from Brichta (who helped [...]
Literacy and Creative Expression Come to Life
For the second year, Stories that Soar! brings its magical potion to Mission Manor. This special blend of literacy, arts and self expression transforms [...]
Thank you for a fabulous 1st Annual Rally for Literacy!
The official kick-off for Literacy Connects was held on October 1st in downtown Tucson. The rally celebrated the unprecedented steps taken by five literacy [...]
Literacy Connects you to the literacy movement
providing the forum to create system-wide solutions encouraging collaboration among all literacy programs helping expand the resources available to our community to fund big [...]
Sunnyside neighborhood, a literacy epicenter!
Results are magnified when entire families, neighbors and friends are involved What’s happening at Mission Manor Elementary School and the Sunnyside Literacy Zone? Everything! [...]
RORSA Provider Spotlight: Meet Dr. Sifontes of Carondelet Medical Group in Sahuarita
Dr. Maria Sifontes was born in Puerto Rico. Her family moved to the mainland about eighteen years ago and to Arizona in 1996. “As [...]
Reading Seed Coaches make a lasting impact…
When Caitlin, now 11, was a first grader at Cottonwood Elementary, she always looked forward to her weekly visit with her “reading buddy,” Reading [...]
Question: “Hello, what is your name?” Answer: “Hello, What is your name?”
This was how the Spring 2011 semester began in the pre-lit class held at Wright Elementary. About 6 Somali and middle-eastern women made the [...]
Volunteer for Literacy
One will never know what the impact volunteering has on a person or place until they do it. To be a volunteer you not [...]
