LITERACY (Ages 5-12)  
   

Improve your child's reading level!  The YMCA Youth Literacy Program is designed to help a child become a more active and involved reader.  The program mission is to a proactive and preventive approach to the problem of illiteracy by actively identifying youth needing assistance and training tutors for them.

The objective is to improve a child's reading and study habits by offering the child a personal literacy tutor for at least three months.  Students in need of tutoring can be referred to the YMCA by parents or teachers. 

To get your child or a child you know started please fill out the application and return it to the Front Desk.  The Literacy Program Coordinator, Amber Brychta, will contact you shortly.  If you have questions, please call (619) 283-2251after 1pm or e-mail her at abrychta@copley.ymca.org

Application
       
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Youth Literacy Tutors are always needed!
       
 
 

Tutoring Overview
     

Who?  The program is focused on elementary school students (K-5); although, we do accept some 6th graders in the program.  It is open to any child who needs encouragement and extra help with schoolwork, with a special emphasis on reading skills.

What?  This is a 12-week program in which students read books, build vocabulary, get help with homework, and practice skills that make better readers through games and other activities.  There are three assessments (one every 4 weeks) that track students’ reading progress.  At the end of the 12-week session, students graduate from the Literacy Program and have the option of transferring to Homework Club or another YMCA program.

 

When?  Students are paired with a volunteer tutor for one hour per week, depending on students’ and volunteers’ availability.  Tutoring sessions are held Monday – Thursday between 3:00 and 7:00 pm. 

Where?  The Computer Learning Lab at the Copley YMCA