Website: http://ldahalton.ca
Address: 560 Guelph Line , Burlington Ontario, L7R3M4
Contact Name: Krystal Clements
Email: readingrocks@ldahalton.ca
Phone: (905) 483-8731
Posted: 2016/03/21
Opportunity Description
The position of Reading Rocks volunteer tutor supports the Learning Disabilities Association of Halton's literacy program for children and youth with learning difficulties. This one-to-one literacy program is designed to motivate and help children ages 6-12yrs gain confidence and academic success in reading and writing. It is also designed to help facilitators and volunteers gain knowledge and experience in working with children who experience difficulties learning essential literacy skills. Therefore, this position is responsible for developing and implementing an appropriate and effective individualized literacy program to meet the child’s individual literacy needs.
The Reading Rocks! program is run out of three locations: Burlington (LDAH Resource Centre), Oakville (Sheridan College) and Milton (Sam Sherratt Public School). Volunteers are needed for the spring session, which will be starting on April 26th. The program will run for eight weeks.
The Reading Rocks volunteer tutor:
- Works with the Program Facilitator and Program Coordinator to develop and implement an appropriate and effective individualized literacy program to meet the child’s individual literacy needs;
- Develops and implements engaging, creative and hands-¬‐on literacy activities and games in the areas of literacy: phonics, sight words, fluency, reading/listening comprehension, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and more to provide assistance for the assigned child struggling with literacy skills;
- Develops a unique work station where the child’s successes are emphasized;
- Conducts informal literacy assessment on the first day of program (pre-assessment) as well as on the last day of program (post-assessment);
- Provides a positive learning environment to invoke self-¬‐motivation for the child as he/she develops phonological awareness and processing skills;
- Educates the child on how their unique learning requirements affect how they understand and use information and how this ultimately affects their ability to learn and ways they can use their unique learning as a strength;
- Provides regular positive feedback on the student’s progress to instill self-motivation and self-confidence in their academic development;
- Fills out session reports after the tutoring sessions to track the children’s progress;
- Assists the program facilitator if need be.