Reading Tips - After School Programs

Your after School Program can help by...

• Providing after-school tutoring or mentoring programs

• Using college work study students, seniors, and AmeriCorp volunteers as tutors, mentors and role models for program participants

• Encouraging family members to get involved in teaching and learning reading skills and raising standards

• Encouraging students to go to the school library and to the local library during non-school hours

• Making available quality books for a wide age range that reflect the interests of children in your in the program and the community at large.

• Establishing formal linkages with nearby colleges, literacy groups, youth organizations, and businesses

• Developing a monthly program in which seniors discuss their oral histories with children

• Helping students write their own stories and produce them in book or dramatic form

• Holding an essay or speech contest among local children on the topic of how "Reading Has Made a Difference in My Life"

• Offering other expanded educational opportunities, enrichment, and academic assistance classes.

Citation: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/After_School_Programs/Reading_Programs.html

Please contact us for more information:

Cathy Crocker
Community Liaison
Marion County Department of Children & Families
(503) 588-7975
ccrocker@co.marion.or.us

Stacy Simmons
Facilitator
Willamette Education Service District
(503) 385-4522
stacy.simmons@wesd.org