“TO THE WORLD YOU MAY BE ONE PERSON, BUT TO ONE PERSON YOU MAY BE THE WORLD. VOLUNTEERS OFTEN EMBODY THIS SENTIMENT.” – DR. SEUSS With the 2024–2025 academic year behind us, the San Antonio Youth Literacy (SAYL) Team is now focused on the 2025–2026 school year. Our staff has
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A Letter from the Executive Director
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela Well, we are quickly coming to the end of the 2021 – 2022 school year. Soon our students will be completing what, at times, seemed an insurmountable mountain — a school year filled with Covid-19 and the chaos that has surrounded
Reading Buddy Seminar – Five Areas of Focus for Transitional Readers
A recent Reading Buddy seminar gave Buddies strategies for helping transitional readers. These are students who are “nearly fluent” readers, kids who have begun to adopt reading behaviors that will lead them toward more advanced skills, but who might need a little help navigating this transition. The seminar highlighted strategies
Executive Director Note – March 2020
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” – Maya Angelou For the past several years, San Antonio Youth Literacy has participated in The Big Give and will do so again in 2020. For those of you not familiar with The Big Give, it is a drive held annually for one
Reading Buddy Tip – February 2020
Tips for Helping Students Stay Focused We’ve all had the one student who has a hard time focusing during their session. It could be a one-time thing or a weekly occurrence. Try the tips below at your next tutoring session, and don’t forget, if needed you can always reach out
Executive Director Note – February 2020
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss Can you believe that we are a complete month into 2020? And with that being said, we are also into our second semester of the school year. We are so
Reading Buddy Seminar 2020
Five Areas of Focus for Transitional Readers This seminar is intended for new and current Reading Buddies. It will cover self-monitoring, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and decoding techniques that Reading Buddies can implement during their tutoring sessions. Reading Buddy Seminars offer a supportive environment for volunteers to come together to learn,
School Spotlight – January 2020
Hats off to our January school of the month – Wilson Elementary in SAISD! Our Site Director, Ms. De Leon has been a great help and has worked hard to make the Reading Buddy program a priority at her school. Ms. De Leon took over the role as our Site Director
Reading Buddy Tip – January 2020
Building Your Buddy’s Confidence as a Reader You can probably think of times in your life where being less skilled at something that others seemed to be able to do quite well made you feel inadequate or inferior. Many students experience similar feelings when they recognize they are not reading
Picture This! Tips for Using Mental Imagery While Reading
Article provided by Reading Rockets, Colorin, Colorado, and LD OnLine One way to help a child comprehend what they are reading is to encourage them to visualize parts of the story in their mind. These “mental movies” helps clarify and increase understanding that extends throughout genres. The pictures they imagine can