“Once they figure out that those things aren’t going to happen, that people aren’t going to make fun of them, that the people in their class are there to support them, it’s amazing how well they will do and how they can learn,” O’Dell said.
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Metropolitan Library System branches are high-tech community learning hubs
“We talk about reading being at the heart of what we do, but learning is really at the heart of what we do,” Rogers said.
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Oklahoma organization delivers special Christmas messages to children of inmates
Oklahoma Messages Project videotapes incarcerated parents reading books to their children.
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Literacy program offers OKC schools thousands of age-appropriate e-books
“That achievement gap starts to close and they get confidence in reading,” Barnes said. “That moves them forward in becoming stronger readers.”
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Local organizations help adults learn to read
Volunteers and employees of local literacy organizations band together to put an end to adult illiteracy.
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Westbrook program gives 1,200 books to kids
Russell Westbrook unveiled his first reading room at an Oklahoma City school. It offers students a fun place to read and increased access to books.
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Read instrument
She founded the Oklahoma City Metro Literacy Coalition, which helps adults and children alike improve their reading skills. Its participants vary wildly in age. “I had a 69-year-old grandma call me last week, looking for help on statistics,” Surbeck said. She said the coalition’s purpose is getting people aid they need through their database of […]
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Back in black
For rockers Gooding, life as touring musicians isn’t just about the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. It’s also about financial literacy. Wait, what? “Isn’t it the least rock ’n’ roll thing in the world? Shouldn’t I be carrying around a guitar and a bottle of Jack?” said Gooding, guitarist/singer and unimonikered namesake of the […]
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Building Liberia’s library
Evelyn Phyffer, among the key organizers of the collection, said during a trip to Liberia, she saw firsthand the republic’s desperate need for books for children, medical students and seminary students. “Teachers in Liberia use the chalk-and-talk method,” she said. “They have to write all their lessons on a chalkboard because students do not have […]