INDIANAPOLIS — With the commitment to a one-time, 90-minute training session and weekly visits to an IPS school, you can become one of IPS’s ReadUP tutors. Volunteers are vital to student success not only for the literacy achievement that grows with a tutor, but also because ReadUP builds relationships between students and tutors that increase trust, confidence, and progress throughout the year.
UWCI provides the training sessions to ensure each ReadUP volunteer is fully prepared to provide impactful and consistent instructional support to struggling readers.
The main ReadUP program matches volunteers with 3rd and 4th grade students for weekly reading sessions, but UWCI plans to look at the positive impact of expanding additional ReadUP initiatives within IPS. ReadUP Corps complements the main program by bringing specially trained tutors to assist struggling readers in 1st and 2nd grades with the hopes of increasing reading proficiency by 3rd grade. ReadUP Readers helps to promote an early start to reading by joining preschool classes for regular reading activities.
UWCI hopes to bring 1,200 ReadUP volunteers to IPS schools this year. Visit www.uwci.org/register-for-readup-marion to register.