Reading council's final workshop set for May 19, 20

May 15, 2008 04:58 pm

— The Cumberland Adult Reading Council (CARC) will present its final workshop of the training season May 19 and 20 from 2-5 p.m. at St. Raphael's Episcopal Church hall at 1038 Sparta Hwy. This two-day workshop for prospective tutors will deal with teaching students with learning disabilities, and will be a video presentation.
This will be the third training workshop of the year. Previous workshops have dealt with lesson planning and the use of published material from ProLiteracy's New Readers Press, with the Laubach Way to Reading, and with teaching English as a second language.
To be qualified to work as a CARC tutor, volunteers must attend all three workshops, although not in any order. The next series of workshops will begin again in the fall, and new volunteers may attend the May 19 and 20 workshop and complete the series when it begins again in September or October if they so wish.
CARC provides one-on-one tutoring to adults who need to improve their reading and writing skills. Recently, basic math has been added to the program, since literacy includes numerical, as well a verbal, literacy. The number of math tutors is limited at the present time, but the aspect of the program will be developed further in the not too distant future.
For more information and directions to St. Raphael's church, call Ann Pelikan at 788-5073 or 248-6111.