A literacy program to help ensure that every child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade.

America Reads is a federally funded tutoring program administered by the CMU Volunteer Center. The program focuses on improving children’s reading skills and confidence and in encouraging children to become life-long readers. Each year over 200 second and third grade students in the community receive one-on-one tutoring through CMU’s America Reads Program.

Our mission is to:

• Improve children’s reading skills
• Get children excited about reading.
• Promote literacy awareness on campus and in the community
• Give CMU students the opportunity to be a teacher and mentor to children

America Reads Tutors are CMU students who have a love for working with children and a passion for teaching. Tutors work with each child for at least one hour per week, and tutor between 5 and 12 students using a strategy called paired reading. Tutors are paid through federal work study and must go through a criminal background check and extensive training before working with children. Preference is given to teacher education students and students with daytime availability.

**Click here to apply to be an America Reads Tutor.**

Please contact the Volunteer Center at 774-7685 or volunteer.center@cmich.edu with any questions about the America Reads Program.