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What is OASIS?
OASIS is a national education organization dedicated to enriching the lives of adults age 50 plus through lifelong learning and service opportunities. Offering stimulating programs in the arts, humanities, health, technology and volunteer service, OASIS brings people together to learn, lead and contribute to their communities.
What is Intergenerational Tutoring?
This is a nationally acclaimed program in which volunteers, schools and OASIS work together to help students in grades K-5 build and strengthen reading skills, confidence, and positive attitudes toward learning.
Volunteers are paired with young children who could benefit from individual encouragement and support. The adults work one-on-one with the students each week, for approximately up to one hour per week, as their tutors, mentors, and friends. Volunteers receive in depth training and ongoing support from the school district.
GOALS:
- To promote motivation, success and enjoyment of reading, writing, and oral communication.
- To increase the confidence and self-esteem of students participating in the program.
- To strengthen ties between generations by providing opportunities for mature adults and young children to develop friendships, understanding, and trust.
What do they do together?
- Talk – to help the students express their ideas.
- Write in the child’s Journal – possibly a story or experience or fantasy, often something based on their conversation or reading.
- Read the child’s writing together – child reading.
- Work with the child’s writing – playing with and identifying words, letters, etc.
- Review past materials and stories.
- Read a book – tutor reading TO the student and encouraging responses, predictions, conclusions.
If you would like to volunteer to be a part of this program, contact Judy Kamper, Kirkwood OASIS coordinator, at 314-213-6100 ext. 7818 or e-mail her at jkamper@sbcglobal.net.
You can obtain more information at the OASIS website http://www.oasisnet.org.