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Frontier College works with community-based groups and organizations to set up Reading Circles and volunteer tutoring programs for children. By helping children to get hooked on books today, we are working to promote a love of reading for the future.
A Reading Circle is a place where children and volunteers read together for enjoyment. Once a week for an hour, children and volunteers get together to enjoy books and stories. Reading Circles are organized in low income housing communities, community centres, after school programs, aboriginal communities - anywhere families and children gather.
Reading Circles are easy to run. Frontier College trains parents, volunteers, organizations and others interested in setting up and operating Reading Circles for the children in their neighbourhoods. Visit Resources to see more about setting up and running a Reading Circle in your community.
Frontier College's Family Literacy activities also include workshops, speaking engagements and promotional events to encourage and enable parents and care-givers to read with their children every day.
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Frontier College works with children and youth across Canada in a variety of settings. Volunteers are screened and trained to work as one-to-one tutors, small group tutors and classroom helpers.
Our approach focuses on the strengths of the learner and the knowledge and experience that they bring to the learning experience.
Frontier College volunteers work in a settings ranging from schools, to community centres to libraries and shelters. This work with children and youth provides learners with literacy and homework support and has a positive impact on their self-esteem.
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Frontier College works with community-based groups and organizations to set up Homework Clubs for children and teenagers.
At Homework Clubs students meet one-to-one with volunteer tutors to read books, write stories, do homework, play word games - anything that will improve the reading and writing abilities of the students. Tutors and students meet at least once a week.
Frontier College provides training and resources for volunteer tutors, and community organizations support tutors and students. Visit Resources to see more about setting up and running a Homework Club in your community.
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The Aboriginal Literacy Summer Camps aim to assist in strengthening the English literacy skills of Aboriginal children and youth living in either remote fly-in or drive-in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario (and possibly Northern Alberta), in safe, caring and fun-filled environments. Camp Counsellors will be expected to work in small, independent teams which include local First Nations Camp Counsellors, to deliver a diverse array of literacy-based camp activities such as reading, writing and story-telling, sports, games and outdoor activities, as well as arts and crafts. See Job Opportunities for more details.
Reading Tents, as part of the history and tradition of Frontier College, are intended to promote reading and literacy awareness by exposing children and families to a wide range of books, stories and creative literacy activities. The reading tents encourage children to read for fun as well as to further develop their reading skills over the summer months. The primary role of the Reading Tent Coordinator in each city is to organize, coordinate, and deliver a series of outdoor reading tents for children and their parents or caregivers over approximately an eight week period. See Job Opportunities for more details.
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