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Reading Stars Readers Theater Summer Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: Children's Literacy Network
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Children's Literacy Network is excited to present our newest program this summer: Reading Stars Reader's Theater!
This program is designed around the well-known strategy of readers theater, which involves children in the process practicing oral reading and writing skills while immersing them in the performing arts! The program is focused on elementary school-level children, and employs a research-based learning model featuring reading supports, innovative arts and drama activities, and essential social and emotional development opportunities to address the needs of both struggling readers and under-resourced students.
Volunteers for this program will serve as a mentor for the children, and support them in the process of creating, developing, and practicing an original script, and a culminating theatrical performance put on by the children. Volunteers will also assist the children in completing other aspects of performing arts including set & prop design, and costume design. We are currently seeking volunteers for the program that are available 1.5 hours a day Monday-Thursday during the dates below:
- 7/24-7/27 & 7/31-8/3 from 9:45-11:15AM in Ypsilanti
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About Children's Literacy Network
Location:
1100 N Main St, Suite 207, ANN ARBOR, MI 48104, US
Mission Statement
Growing Readers for Life! Children’s Literacy Network’s mission is to design and implement literacy-based programs to provide equitable opportunities for children to develop a love of reading and books. We are a volunteer-based nonprofit agency established in 1991, dedicated to closing the book and reading achievement gap to keep low-income students from falling further behind their more affluent peers. Children's Literacy Network (CLN) accomplishes this goal through innovative programming at the early childhood and school-age levels.
Description
For 31 years CLN has provided literacy programs to 400,000 young readers in Washtenaw County, distributing more than a million dollars in new high-quality books to low-income children, creating home libraries for families who need them most. CLN’s current continuum of services and the growth in scope and programming could not have been foreseen by CLN’s founders. Nevertheless, the original goals of the organization remain the same. CLN’s services are useful and empowering for parents, and critical to narrowing the achievement gap between students of different neighborhoods and resources. CLN is committed to meeting ongoing literacy needs, and is dynamic and determined to work with community partners to meet emergent and urgent needs.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1100 North Main Streetsuite 207Ann Arbor, MI 48104
DATE POSTED
July 13, 2023
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Theater Arts
- Reading / Writing
- Storytelling
- Acting
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 1.5 hours per day, four days a week, for two weeks.
- Kindness, patience, and an interest in working with children. Experience or interest in the performing arts is a plus!