[WardFive] North Woodridge - Newton to Michigan and 18th to Eastern Avenue

Good afternoon,

 

At our January 11, 2017 meeting, we will host a presentation by Tutor DC students in reading.

 

​Below is a brief description of the program. Please read and consider volunteering at least two hours a week.  

 

By becoming a reading partner and volunteering as little as one hour a week, you can help a child learn to read. Reading Partners provides an evidence-based, easy-to-use curriculum and on-site staff support to enable volunteers to be effective tutors. You bring your commitment, and Reading Partners will help you with everything else.

We run our programming in schools during the school day, in a classroom space that is the full time reading center for our program.

We work with the classroom teachers to identify students that are struggling with their reading skills, bring them into the reading center for their assessment, evaluate results, place them at their unique spot in the curriculum, and then match them with a tutor.

Community volunteers deliver tutoring weekly with the support and coaching of our AmeriCorps Site Coordinators, using our research-validated curriculum. We ask that tutors just volunteer one hour a week (although many give more!) and so students typically work with two different tutors during the week. We would love for you to volunteer for as many sessions as you are available for weekly! Some tutors come in for multiple sessions on one day (for example, from 8 am - 11 am on Tuesdays) or they choose to be their student's sole tutor and come in twice a week to work with that student (for example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 - 11 am).

The individualized nature of the program presents opportunities for students to revisit skills not yet mastered in a supportive, one-on-one environment.

Devoting just one hour each week to a student can make a tremendous impact. Last year 87% of Reading Partners' DC students met or exceeded their year-end literacy growth goals and this year, Reading Partners is partnering with 20 local district and charter elementary schools to open opportunities for 975 students across Washington, DC.

 

 

 

Shirley Rivens Smith, President 

North Woodridge Citizens

2000 Upshur St., NE

Washington, DC 20018

202-635-3138

 

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