This program is also committed to recruiting and maintaining a culturally diverse tutor base, as well as providing our tutors with a culturally rich experience. We actively encourage students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and cultures to become America Reads tutors. We feel that interactions with people of different cultural backgrounds are an essential part of literacy. We welcome work-study students and volunteers to apply for tutoring positions. The goal of our tutors is to provide children with positive interactions over language, books and written expression in order to encourage their interest in reading and provide them with the tools they need for reading success.
Training is provided and hours are variable, depending on the work site students choose.
Transportation to work site is generally provided. The Reading Corps promotes early literacy in Coventry, Hartford, Mansfield, Willington, and Windham. Tutors' activities include reading picture books, telling stories, singing songs, and creating writing and book-making activities. They also engage children in rhyming, finger plays, conversation, and dramatic play. These activities take place in small groups or with individual children.