The goal is to serve 160 students in the 1998-99 school year. Classroom teacher refer students who are reading below grade level to the tutoring program. After referral, the student is given informal reading inventories and reading skill inventories to develop an individual prescriptive plan for specific reading needs. Site facilitators develop daily individualized lesson plans. The amount of time individual tutors spend with depends on the volunteer's time commitment with a range of between .5 and 2 hours weekly.
Tutors serve one or more children each week.
However, an individual volunteer never tutors more than one student at a time. Tutoring is performed in a specially designated area which has been created at each of the four schools. A variety of methods are used to recruit potential tutors. The primary vehicles are the news media and the Bensenville Community Newsletter, a monthly publication distributed to about 8,000 homes and businesses. In addition, partnership staff is available to community and civic organizations for speaking engagements.