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Become a Preschool Pals Reading Mentor
ORGANIZATION: Children's Reading Partners of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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9 people are interested
Each year, more than 1 in 3 American children starts kindergarten without the language skills they need to learn to read. YOU CAN HELP by becoming a Reading Mentor!
Attend a training session, then select a 30-minute-per-week time slot to read to a preschool student in Bloomfield for 10 weeks during the school day or after school. For more information, contact us at 860-236-7323 or email read@jewishhartford.org.
TRAINING SESSIONS:
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 ; 1:00 - 3:00 PM
or
Thursday, February 7, 2019 6:30 - 8:30 PM
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About Children's Reading Partners of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
Location:
333 Bloomfield Avenue, Ste. C, West Hartford, CT 06117, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Federation's Children's Reading Partners is to build and improve the reading skills of pre-kindergarten to grade five educationally at-risk students in public school districts in Greater Hartford, CT. This is done by recruiting, training, and placing volunteers to read with these students, one-to-one or in small groups, on a consistent weekly basis. Children's Reading Partners promotes the use of books that help children develop emotional intelligence in order to cultivate a culture of kindness and empathy. Children's Reading Partners further expands students reading resources through the annual donation of a book to each student and that student's classroom.
Description
Each year the program recruits, trains and places volunteers to read weekly with children in Hartford and five neighboring communities (Bloomfield, East Hartford, Manchester, New Britain and West Hartford). The components of the current program are:
- Elementary Express - Reading mentors read books for 30 minutes weekly one-on-one with at-risk kindergarten through fifth grade students.
- Reading Buddies - Middle school students read books weekly with a kindergarten student in Hartford and Bloomfield for one month.
- Preschool Pals -Volunteers read with preschool children weekly in Bloomfield for ten weeks in the spring and six weeks in the summer.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
333 Bloomfield AvenueZachs CampusWest Hartford, CT 06117
DATE POSTED
January 14, 2019
SKILLS
- Tutoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Youth Services
- Child Development
- Reading / Writing
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 12
- Orientation or Training
- The time commitment is a minimum of 30 minutes per week March through May. Reading sessions are available during the school day and after school Monday through Friday.