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About Our Programs

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Adult Volunteer Literacy Program

In our Adult Volunteer Literacy program, trained volunteer literacy tutors work one-on-one or in small groups with adult learners, focusing on helping learners reach their individual goals. Through our FeelFluent Chasers classes, we also provide classroom instruction options for beginning English language learners who are on our waitlist for individualized tutoring.

Family Literacy Program

Our Family Literacy Program serves parents and their children during the school year. The program benefits the entire family by improving the English Language and parenting skills of the adults as they gain a better understanding of the expectations of the school system and the community, and learn how to be more engaged in their children’s education and development. Families enjoy Interactive Literacy Activities (ILA) and library services together. Children are enrolled in Boys & Girls Club and receive homework help, a free meal, and club activities.

Conversation Groups

Our drop-in conversation groups are led by volunteer tutors and hosted in partnership with Gail Borden Public Library. Volunteer tutors host small groups of adult learners at various skill levels and stimulate casual conversations in English through the use of games, stories, role-playing, show-and-tell, videos and other visual aids, as well as through focusing on specific topics, such as citizenship.

Workplace Literacy

This fee-based program provides tailored English literacy instruction based on the communication needs of a company or industry, typically taking place on site at the workplace for 8 to 24 weeks.

The Literacy Connection is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization helping adult individuals learn to read, write, speak, and understand English. Adult learners are provided one-on-one or small group tutoring services for free in the sixteen northwest Chicago suburban communities we serve. All donations are tax deductible to the full amount allowed by law.

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CONTACT

Call: (847) 742-6565

Text: (224) 215-6515

Email: requestinfo@elginliteracy.org

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