NEED TO KNOW

* For the Literacy Referral Service – Click here.

* GED Scholarships are available – Click here.

* OKCMLC Participates in the All-America 3rd Grade Reading Campaign – Funds received from the Eco-Home Tour will support our participation in this city wide effort. This is an opportunity for all of our members and supporters to engage in an effort that stands to benefit the entire community. The National Civic League’s signature All-America City Awards program is well known for recognizing outstanding civic accomplishments in our nation’s cities and towns. In 2012, the awards will focus on communities that address three major obstacles to reading proficiency: a lack of school readiness among younger children, chronic absences that reduce the amount of instructional time received, and summer learning loss in which students lose ground academically between school years. Children who don’t read by the end of third grade and live in poverty are six times more likely to fail to graduate from high school. The Campaign’s goal is to increase by 50 percent the number of low-income children reading on grade level in 3rd grade in at least a dozen states during the next ten years.

Our Mission

To lead a collaboration of literacy providers and supporters to strengthen services and present a united voice for literacy in Metropolitan Oklahoma City

“Without the ability to read, write and understand information, many of our citizens are unable to take advantage of the great resources in our city. And without the combined resources of all our citizens, we are unable to reach our full potential.” Mayor Mick Cornett

We support those who are attempting to break out of generational illiteracy and poverty. We support those who have learning disabilities. We support those who have basic literacy skills and have come to understand that increased knowledge and skills increases earning power. We support all those who provide literacy services. We support educators who face unprecedented challenges today in their classrooms. What can be done about the widening gap between those who cannot read and the technology that is available to those who can? “Today literacy is far more than the ability to sound out a few words of one syllable… it focuses not on recognizing basic words but on comprehension of the world around us.” Donald Block, author of Defining Literacy Up.

We believe together we will find the answers through……