Words to Live By: Promoting Literacy

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Words to Live By: Promoting Literacy


		¡LEAMOS! ("LET'S READ!") Not only does Southern California have a huge number of Spanish-speaking immigrants, but many cannot read or write. How do you teach people who are illiterate in their own language? Val Zavala goes to Centro Latino de Educacion Popular to explore a new computer software to fight illiteracy. Centro Latino Literacy http://www.centrolatinoliteracy.org

		PROJECT ACCESS BOOKS The best predictor of how well a child will learn to read, is how much access they have to books. When Rebecca Constantino saw how children in some of L.A's poor schools had less than one library book per child, she started "Project Access Books." Access Books http://www.accessbooks.net

		RUEBEN MARTINEZ He was a barber, turned bookseller, turned crusader for literacy in his Latino community. Now Rueben Martinez's committment has paid off. He's a recipient of a prestigious $500,000 MacArthur Grant. Libreria Martinez http://www.latinobooks.com

		LITERACY AT WORK More than half of L. A. County's working-age population has low literacy skills, enough to affect their employability and productivity. Val Zavala talks with the Executive Director of the Literacy Network about their new findings and their action plan to improve literacy. Literacy @ Work http://www.workforceliteracy.org

		NEEDED: BOOKS In this Barnes and Noble world, East L.A. is conspicuously devoid of bookstores. And library hours are getting shorter and shorter. How will children in this low-income neighborhood achieve literacy without books? Toni Guinyard reports.


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