WILKES-BARRE – King’s College is offering struggling elementary school learners an opportunity to participate in a Reading Clinic June 25-29.
Twenty students, who are entering first through six grades in the fall, will be accepted for the study on a first-come, first served basis.
Students for the study should have, but are not required to have, been diagnosed as reading at least two grade levels below the class they are entering.
Parents of participants are encouraged to provide the graduate students with any available assessment information for review by the clinical team. School data will be viewed in relationship to this clinical work.
The elementary school students will work with students from the Reading Specialist graduate degree class on the King’s campus Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. through 12:30 p.m.
Daily sessions will include a whole group motivational activity, small group and individually guided writing, vocabulary development, and diagnostic data collection related to reading fluency and comprehension.
The graduate students, under the supervision of full-time faculty members of the King’s education department, will schedule 20-minute conferences with parents of the students involved in the class from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Fridays.
Graduate students working with the students are completing their field experience requirement for their advanced degree.
Deadline for registration is June 6. The fee for the reading clinic is $70, which includes a daily snack and drink and a t-shirt. For more information, contact Dr. Jill Yurko, director of graduate programs in reading at King’s, at 570-208-5900, ext. 5685 or e-mail jillyurko@kings.edu.
