Our University-based tutoring program is offered each fall and spring semester at the Center and online. The literacy tutoring program for elementary and middle-grade students is designed for students who need extra support in reading and writing. This tutorial program is an important part of an advanced literacy instruction class for undergraduate students seeking degrees in education. During the school year, the children come to the Center or meet online for an hour one day a week during each semester. We work closely with families and provide continuous communication as we work with each child during the program.
Literacy instruction in the tutoring programs focuses on meeting students' needs by utilizing various instructional methods, assessments, and technology to enrich the development of each student. Our University faculty and staff are dedicated to advancing literacy for all students. Please visit our website for more registration information regarding our tutoring program. Tutoring slots fill up quickly, so please be sure to register. Registration is not a guarantee of a tutoring slot. You will receive a notification and an application if your child has a tutoring slot.
The Center for Learning & Literacy does not diagnose reading disabilities. We offer informal assessments of a student's reading abilities based on observation. We use the Analytic Reading Inventory (Woods and Moe, 2011).
If you would like your child to be tested for a specific reading disability, we recommend seeking a licensed clinical and/or educational psychologist.
Knowing informal reading inventory data enables classroom teachers, reading specialists, and school psychologists to make evidence-based instructional decisions and to report student progress in standards-based terms. Standardized testing does not provide such detailed instructionally connected data (Woods & More, 2011 p. 2).
Woods, M.L. & Moe, A.J. (2011), Analytical Reading Inventory. (9th Ed.), Pearson, New York.