“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 28-year-old emerging reader George Jackson III at the Literacy Connects “The Power of One” Fundraising Event on November 15th. Over 1,000 people attended the event and committed to helping people like […]
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 Young Author’s Competition is a key segment of the youth activities at the Tucson Festival of Books. The Festival of Books is looking for stories with compelling characters, satisfying development, vivid […]
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 Make Way for Book for another wonderful event. And thank you Pima County Public Library and everyone from the community who came and made Story Town possible. By making books come […]
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 is about a woman named Sydney Stringfellow who is an Olympic level swimmer in 1936. While in Berlin for the Olympics, she falls in love with a German man who is […]
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 write 120 of the stories), parents and babies, District 28 AZ State Senator Paula Aboud, TUSD administers, LitCo board members and friends new and old. It is this kind of community […]
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 organizations to merge and create one strong voice to connect individuals, families, businesses and the community to dynamic literacy programs and services throughout Southern Arizona. The Tucson Festival of Books presented […]
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 ideas around literacy “What you are doing in Tucson is visionary. You are creating a national model I hope others will follow.” –David C. Harvey, President & Chief Executive Officer, ProLiteracy […]
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! The Sunnyside Literacy Zone is one of two focus areas founded by the Literacy for Life Coalition, and being implemented by all the merged programs of Literacy Connects, local community members, […]
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 the second of seven kids, I have always loved children. My earliest memories are of my dad driving all of his brood to the local library exchange, where we would spend […]
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 only have to have commitment, but a passion for what you are doing. Sally Hill is just that, a committed volunteer and has a passion to encourage and promote literacy throughout […]
