ADULTS CAN LEARN TO READ, WRITE, AND SPELL BETTER!

Literacy Services for adults is a program of the Carlsbad City Library that serves English-speaking adults who want to improve their basic reading and writing skills.

Literacy Services has helped hundreds of adults to become more confident and independent. Adult learners:

  • Develop basic reading skills
  • Improve spelling and writing
  • Gain general knowledge
  • Apply literacy skills in daily life.

We provide a friendly, supportive atmosphere. We value every learner's needs and goals. Each learner studies one-to-one with a trained volunteer tutor. All services are confidential and provided without charge.

Partnership with Carlsbad High School

In September 1998, Carlsbad Library's Literacy Services began a cooperative literacy effort with Carlsbad High School. Special education students come daily during regular school hours to the Learning Center. Ninth through twelfth graders are tutored one-to-one in basic reading and writing skills by their special education teacher and aide and by the staff and volunteers of the Literacy Services. Enrollment is done through the high school and students receive high school credit.

"Before I was in this program, it was like I was in a cave. Now I have the whole world opened up to me." Literacy Services program learner

Learning Center

Carlsbad City Library
Learning Center
3368 Eureka Place
Carlsbad, CA 92008
(760) 931-4510
Fax (760) 729-8335


May/June 2009 Newsletter
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