Role of a reading tutor:
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Make a commitment to tutor once a week during the school year.
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Work one-on-one with a K-3rd grade student for a half hour to 45 minutes at your partner school.
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Read aloud with a beginning or emerging reader to develop oral language and comprehension skills.
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Hands-on activities to enhance literacy skills and to instill a love of reading.
Qualifications of a reading tutor:
Information for volunteer tutors:
Volunteers tutor in public elementary schools primarily in underserved communities. School district partners are Boston, Cambridge, Framingham, Brockton, Maynard and Somerville.
Volunteers join “literacy teams” representing synagogues, Jewish organizations, or day schools. Volunteers from a given “literacy team” tutor at the same school. The Coalition helps forge partnerships between “literacy teams” and a public elementary school.
Click here for a list of partnerships.
Organizing a new “literacy team”
To form a new team, contact the GBJCL. We will help you establish a partnership with a new school, (or collaborate with a smaller team already working in a school).
Tutor training and support
All new tutors are required to attend a training session. Training focuses on work with early and emergent readers and includes a Jewish learning component to remind us of our Jewish obligation to Tikkun olam (repairing of the world).
The Coalition is committed to the ongoing development of volunteers’ tutoring skills. Tutors are encouraged to attend at least one support sessions each year on a topic that will help meet the educational goals of the student you are working with.
Click here for some games and activities that you can use today in your tutoring session.
