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New Reading Program Means More Student Tutors in Oberlin School
By Sue Kropp
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JANUARY 26, 2000 --The College's Center for Service and Learning (CSL) has received a state grant to increase the number of tutors within the Oberlin school district.
Through a new program called Everybody Reads, the CSL will build on its current efforts by providing trained tutors for more than 400 children. Everybody Reads also will expand community and family literacy activities by supporting and sponsoring Oberlin community events, and will promote the sharing of resources with other interested community volunteers. The two-year $28,327 grant, acquired through the Ohio Reads Program, also will allow the school district to provide free training and support materials to parents.
Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Education challenged the country "to help all of our children learn to read well and independently by the end of third grade." Oberlin's America Reads program was part of the community's response to that challenge. That program, coordinated by the local nonprofit Oberlin Community Services center (OCS) and the College's Center for Service and Learning (CSL), currently employs student tutors in Eastwood and Prospect elementary schools. The tutors show the children that reading is important and fun by using various tools, including newspapers, food labels, Mad Libs, plays, and worksheets.
The two-year $28,327 grant will help the CSL coordinate its efforts with the school district and implement the Everybody Reads program. "This grant gives us the opportunity to coordinate the efforts of literacy volunteers with the new reading methods of the Oberlin Public Schools," says Caitlin Scott, CSL assistant director of youth education.
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