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High school volunteer describes RAISE literacy tutoring helping early-grade students improve reading and spelling
Summary
A high school volunteer told the meeting that the RAISE tutoring program pairs volunteers with small groups of first- through fourth-grade students and provides hands-on materials; the volunteer reported about 100 hours of summer tutoring and said students became more self-sufficient.
Commenter, a high school student volunteer with the RAISE tutoring program, described the program and her experience during public comment. "The RAISE program is essentially a tutoring literacy program for students, mostly first, second, third grade, and some fourth graders to help them improve on their reading, their spelling, and their writing," she said.
She said volunteers typically…
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