Twenty-eight volunteers – senior citizens, parents and high school students – will enhance the learning of developing readers and writers. Each trained volunteer will spend an hour a week inviting one child into the world of books and written language. Literacy tutors will demonstrate not only reading and writing but also citizenship, showing their students by example what it means to give to others.

“Hand in Hand’ Is based on Help America Read, a program and handbook for volunteers, by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas. They cite research showing that tutored students made greater academic gains than might have been expected and greater gains than students who were not tutored. Structured on-going training for the volunteers is a cornerstone of the program.

Grant requested by Dottie Miles, for Huckleberry Hill Elementary School