- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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58 people are interested
Love Kids? Be a Rocket Phonics Reading Tutor
ORGANIZATION: Rocket Phonics Foundation
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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58 people are interested
FUN READING TUTORING OPPORTUNITY
Adult or High School Student Tutors for K-2 in Manatee County
ORGANIZATION: Rocket Phonics Foundation
Love kids? Like to play games? Willing to let the child win?
The Rocket Phonics Foundation is looking for volunteers for tutoring to help students in reading. Our program is very simple to use, and is laid out for you step-by-step. Partly because we use lots of games in our one-on-one sessions, the students LOVE our program and our tutors.
With the Rocket Phonics reading program, 90% of our students progress from below grade level to reading above grade level in one year. So it’s fast, fun and easy.
We tutor in various schools, mostly elementary, in Sarasota and Manatee counties. We’re growing, and adding more students.
You can tutor one or two afternoons a week. It’s a couple hours a week for you, but transformation for a lifetime for the children. Days vary depending on the site, and times are generally from 3:30 - 5 pm. High school students can tutor too, and get volunteer hours needed for Bright Futures Scholarships.
Most of us are Christian and that’s reflected in our conversations--so if you would not be comfortable with that, our program may not be for you.
The fall session starts Oct 9. Our free tutor trainings in Sarasota will be Sept 9 at Church of the Palms from 9-11 am or 6-8 pm (pick one). Manatee County's free training will be Sept 16 at Mixon's Fruit Farms' Honeybell Hall from 6 - 8 pm. To get more information, or get started, go to the Rocket Phonics Foundation site at rocketphonics.org. Click on Volunteer and then on Tutor Preferences.
Volunteers need to pass a background check to be eligible to work with the students.
About the Rocket Phonics Foundation
Location: 7320 Bounty Drive, Sarasota FL, 34231, US
Mission Statement:
The Rocket Phonics Foundation: Saving lives one reader at a time.
We play games with children that teach them to read. For many of our kids reading was a nightmare they dread, but the games and the rapid success turns it into a joy.
By eight-years old most children will decide their future based on one skill--reading. If they are not reading at grade level, they will have a 50% unemployment rate for their adult life. Learn to read at grade level and they replace a cycle of poverty and abuse with cycles of hope, empowerment and success.
Rocket Phonics, a series of reading games, can bring them to grade level in weeks instead of years. By current standards it’s a miracle. For low-income-low-literacy elementary kids it’s a life-saver.
Rocket Phonics was recently featured in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and in a short two-minute report on local TV station SNN. To see the SH-T article, see https://rocketphonics.org/ more-than-a-game-raising- reading-scores/ and the SNN video see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5VIUuJBQ9A
More opportunities with Rocket Phonics Foundation
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Rocket Phonics Foundation
Location:
7320 Bounty Dr, Sarasota, FL 34231, US
Mission Statement
Rocket Phonics Foundation assists in closing the reading achievement gap through the use of the Rocket Phonics reading program.
Description
Literacy is the gateway to building skills in core academic subjects. Gained early it breaks the cycles of poverty and abuse and replaces them with cycles of hope, empowerment and success. Our long term goal is to bring all children to the grade level by third grade. We believe this will be done one community at a time with leaders from that community who claim ownership.
We are a nonprofit whose current focus is literacy for 4 to 8 year olds. We offer an innovative solution whose results are beyond what seems possible. We bring that solution to early learning environments in your neighborhood be they preschool, after school or summer school. Our collaboration is scalable so we can support your efforts to expand.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple locations Bradenton, FL 34201
DATE POSTED
July 11, 2024
SKILLS
- Tutoring
- Literacy / Reading
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 14
- Orientation or Training
- Two hours from 1 to 4 days a week. A few hours for you and a lifetime for them.
- Love children, enjoy playing games with them and be willing to let them win.