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(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 10, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- The goal of the program was simply to improve children’s reading scores by pairing caring, knowledgeable tutors with children. Patch editor Denise Lockwood volunteered with the Schools of Hope program and spent about two hours a week, usually after school on Wednesdays, with two second-graders – a girl and a boy – from Mrs. Margis’ second-grade class at Olympia Brown Elementary.
The goal of the program is to help children learn to not only read, but also gain the skills to comprehend what they are reading. Books included in the program were of all kinds, some about gardens and fishing expeditions, aliens and princesses, and frogs and fire-breathing dragons. Students read to the tutors, and tutors read to the children.
Many of the teachers in the elementary schools involved in the program noted that that they MAP test the students in several areas, including reading. At the second-grade level, they expect the kids to improve at least by 13 to 14 points over the year. But for those involved in the School of Hope kids, they had improved their reading scores by an average of 22 points.
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