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Focus on Literacy
MSSA encourages students to promote literacy-related service-learning
activities throughout the year in classes, through extracurricular and
after-school groups, as well through independent projects. Students may
focus directly on a literacy issue such as improving reading skills or
supporting school readiness or they may link literacy to other issues, such
as poverty or cultural awareness and tolerance. This literacy focus also
ties in to the
No Child Left Behind Act
of 2001.
Activities in which students may wish to engage include:
- Serving as a "Book Buddy" mentor/tutor to students of any age
(including adults) or learning level (including developmentally disabled)
- Helping adult immigrants learn English
- Working with
Judy Centers
to help prepare pre-school students for
school
- Reading to the elderly or someone who is sight-impaired
- Teaching senior citizens to use the Internet
- Helping parents and students learn how to effectively use their
local library
- Establish a intergenerational or inter-cultural pen pal program
- Writing children's books to donate (and read to) younger students
- Translating written books into audio or Braille format for the
sight-impaired
- Collecting books for a homeless shelter
- Raising funds for groups like
UNICEF and
Heifer International
through read-a-thons
- Providing school supplies for international programs such as the
BluePack Project
or American Red Cross
School Chest Initiative
- Promoting service-learning activities through articles in the school
or community papers
- Increasing an awareness of diversity through literature
- Using theatre and poetry in advocacy projects
- Celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2nd) through
Read Across America activities.
School Chest Initiative -
“Read Across America” -
The list of activities is limitless!
Information on literacy and more project ideas
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