Each child’s tutoring sessions will be approximately 1 hour on Tuesday and Thursdays between 3:30 – 6:30 PM. Sessions will include literacy instruction, & character development lessons. Children will receive explicit & systematic reading instruction, individually or in small groups based on their pretest scores. 

 Instruction will emphasis the essential components for reading instruction as outlined by the National Reading Panel (2000) (i.e., phonemes, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension). There will be regular progress monitoring of each child’s progress.

Children will be provided support in completing homework during the program. Each session of the program will include with a lesson from 7 Mindset a character-building curriculum. 

Dr. Ralph Gardner, professor emeritus, Program Director