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Volunteer

About Volunteering

When you volunteer at Reading Partners, you'll work one-on-one with a child who has fallen behind in reading.

  • Each tutoring session is 45 minutes.

  • Volunteers can tutor once a week or twice a week.  (Children are tutored twice a week.)

  • Volunteers can tutor one child or several.  (Some tutors tutor several children in back-to-back sessions.)

  • Tutoring takes place on the campuses of local schools that have a relationship with Reading Partners.

   

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Why Volunteer?

  1. The kids are adorable! Kids help you see the world differently.  They make you laugh and brighten your day.  With this program, you have the chance to build a special relationship with one child.

  2. If you like children, love books and reading, and like passing on what you know, volunteering with Reading Partners is a great fit for your interests.

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What You'll Do

After you've had training and been matched with a child, you will start tutoring.

As a Tutor, You Will:

  • encourage your student,

  • build a trusting, positive relationship and

  • inspire your student's excitement about reading, learning and the world.


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Results


Reading Achievement:

  • On average, students jump an entire grade level in reading skills after only 30 hours of Reading Partners tutoring.

  • Students advance, on average, two and a half times faster than before they had intervention from Reading Partners.

    • In 2007/2008, based on pre- and post-assessments, on average, students entered the program progressing at a rate of approximately a half a year for every year in school and finished the program progressing at a rate equivalent to one and half years for every year in school.

    • What's important about this rate of improvement is that it means students are gaining ground and breaking the vicious cycle of falling farther and farther behind. For the first time, students are improving at a rate that puts them on the road to proficiency.

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Success Stories

First Grader Transforms Tears to Smiles
Parents, teachers, and Ms. Redfern's first-grade class sat in the audience waiting to see students like Ashley perform at the annual Reading Partners recital.  When it was Ashley's turn, she strutted to the front of the audience, announced her name, and began reading from "A Garden." No one from the back of the room needed to ask Ashley to speak up.  She read like a ham.  Every time she'd finish reading a page, she'd pause, look at her audience adoringly, and hold the book up like a teacher to show everyone the pictures on the page.

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Training & Support

Reading Partners has a Three-Part Training Program:

New Tutor Orientation (90 minutes)
To get started, you will participate in a new tutor orientation that will introduce you to the Reading Partners program, best teaching practices and our unique curriculum.  In the Bay Area, the training is offered at all of our 12 locations.  In Los Angeles, you'll be taking the training online as part of a pilot group.

One-On-One Tutor Training (45 minutes to 1 hour)
On your first day of tutoring, you will be given additional one-on-one training while tutoring is in session.  With direction from your Site Director, a Reading Partners staff member, you'll go over the flow and components of a tutoring session and usually observe another volunteer tutoring a student for an entire session.

After these two trainings, you'll be ready to tutor!

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How to Get Started

Volunteers comment that getting started to tutor at Reading Partners is easy and organized.

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People Who Volunteer

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