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ARC book sale set for this weekend
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| Helen Beckman (left) and Linda Cowles check out the selection at last year’s Adult Reading Center book sale. |
Looking for some good books? A Wine & Cheese Preview Night at SpringHill Suites Hotel located at 1820 Country Place Parkway (C.R. 94), Pearland, from 5:00 to 8:30 pm on Friday, September 5th, offers book lovers a first look at over 25,000 books available for purchase at the 10th Annual Used Book Sale benefiting the Adult Reading Center. Tickets for this event are $10 and can be purchased at the door.
This preview event gives avid readers and collectors first choice of a wide variety of books including children’s books, current edition hardbacks (both fiction and non-fiction), biographies, and gently used paperbacks. Sponsors for the Preview Night include A&A Cleaning Services, Best Coupons, Constable Buck Stevens, Dream Dinners, Half Price Books, HEB Plus!, Pearland Journal, and SpringHill Suites-Pearland.
The book sale will be open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m., books can be purchased by the bag at $5 per bag. All proceeds from this event are used to provide free tutoring to adults with low English literacy skills. For more information, call 281-485-1000 or visit www.adultreadingcenter.org.
The annual book sale is held in September to celebrate International Literacy Day. Literacy is an essential key to meeting our most pressing challenges and to reaching our greatest potential, now and in the future. 93 million American adults, or 45% of the adult population, have limited reading, writing, and math skills. An estimated 30 million adults, or 14%, have “below basic” literacy skills. This means they cannot perform basic literacy functions like read a map, fill out a job application, or calculate the total cost from a purchase order. Of this 30 million, 11 million are considered “not literate in English.” American businesses currently spend more than $60 billion each year on employee training, much of that for remedial reading, writing, and mathematics.
The Adult Reading Center is a community-based literacy provider that has been assisting citizens in the greater Pearland area for over 21 years as they search to improve themselves and their quality of life. The Center offers literacy, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), citizenship, and a computer learning lab, free of charge, to any adult 18 years of age or older. As a result of our work, students move into higher paying jobs creating a literate workforce that is important to growth in our community. Some choose college or technical training. For many, it is simply the step that breaks the illiteracy cycle in their family.
With the assistance of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Literacy Texas, the state literacy coalition of which the Adult Reading Center is a member, recently launched a marketing campaign to promote literacy in Texas. The campaign, Reading is BIG in Texas, targets a wide audience and is aimed at deepening public understanding of literacy as a major social and economic issue. The campaign is intended to call the State’s attention to literacy in a new way. Literacy Texas is demonstrating to the people of Texas — especially business leaders and policymakers — that 100% literacy is attainable with 100% community engagement.
This preview event gives avid readers and collectors first choice of a wide variety of books including children’s books, current edition hardbacks (both fiction and non-fiction), biographies, and gently used paperbacks. Sponsors for the Preview Night include A&A Cleaning Services, Best Coupons, Constable Buck Stevens, Dream Dinners, Half Price Books, HEB Plus!, Pearland Journal, and SpringHill Suites-Pearland.
The book sale will be open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m., books can be purchased by the bag at $5 per bag. All proceeds from this event are used to provide free tutoring to adults with low English literacy skills. For more information, call 281-485-1000 or visit www.adultreadingcenter.org.
The annual book sale is held in September to celebrate International Literacy Day. Literacy is an essential key to meeting our most pressing challenges and to reaching our greatest potential, now and in the future. 93 million American adults, or 45% of the adult population, have limited reading, writing, and math skills. An estimated 30 million adults, or 14%, have “below basic” literacy skills. This means they cannot perform basic literacy functions like read a map, fill out a job application, or calculate the total cost from a purchase order. Of this 30 million, 11 million are considered “not literate in English.” American businesses currently spend more than $60 billion each year on employee training, much of that for remedial reading, writing, and mathematics.
The Adult Reading Center is a community-based literacy provider that has been assisting citizens in the greater Pearland area for over 21 years as they search to improve themselves and their quality of life. The Center offers literacy, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), citizenship, and a computer learning lab, free of charge, to any adult 18 years of age or older. As a result of our work, students move into higher paying jobs creating a literate workforce that is important to growth in our community. Some choose college or technical training. For many, it is simply the step that breaks the illiteracy cycle in their family.
With the assistance of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Literacy Texas, the state literacy coalition of which the Adult Reading Center is a member, recently launched a marketing campaign to promote literacy in Texas. The campaign, Reading is BIG in Texas, targets a wide audience and is aimed at deepening public understanding of literacy as a major social and economic issue. The campaign is intended to call the State’s attention to literacy in a new way. Literacy Texas is demonstrating to the people of Texas — especially business leaders and policymakers — that 100% literacy is attainable with 100% community engagement.
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