AmeriCorps Tutorial Program
The Reading Tutorial program has been funded by a grant from the Corporation for National Service for nine years and administered by the Georgia Commission on Service and Volunteerism. The AmeriCorps Reading Tutorial Program has grown from 3 local network affiliate sites in 1995 to 15 and expanded its scope to include both elementary and middle school students.
The CISGA AmeriCorps Reading Tutorial program provides an opportunity for part-time members to intervene and tutor low-achieving elementary school students and improve their reading comprehension, vocabulary recognition, and basic writing skills. The program helps increase the graduation rates by improving reading and math scores and strengthening academic skills.
Students receive one-on-one tutoring or small group sessions at 30-minute daily intervals each week. As tutors, members also provide support services to students to increase their time spent on independent reading.
Members provide services to Atlanta, Burke, Candler, BenHill, Dodge, Emanuel, Elbert, Glascock, Hart, Jenkins, Laurens, McDuffie, Stephens, Troup and Wilkes counties.
For more information about the AmeriCorps Tutorial Program, please contact Marie-Ella Williams, Tutoring Projects Coordinator at (404) 897-2951 or mwilliams@cisgeorgia.org.