Literacy TREC Track (LTT) focuses on literacy instruction for struggling readers ages kindergarten through third grade. The on-campus, after-school program connects UMM TREC tutors with elementary students during the academic year and during a summer program. TREC tutors receive initial literacy training, and weekly meetings provide continuous support.
LTT enhances elementary students’ literacy, academic, personal, and social readiness skills, and puts students early on the road to higher education. The program was initiated because of a nationally identified need at the state and local levels for increased attention to literacy skills development for struggling early readers. The programs goals include skill instruction in basic learning principles and building confidence so students continue to learn. Creating positive relationships in a culture of learning positively affirms students’ behaviors in the learning process and encourages further effort, responsibility, and constructive attitudes toward learning.
LTT has also built positive relationships between the campus community, Morris Area Public Schools, and participants’ parents.
Children participating in LTT arrive on campus by bus after school on Monday through Thursday for one-on-one tutoring and small group activities. Trained UMM TREC tutors plan and implement the literacy development projects and lessons, and work with students from 3:15 until 5:30 p.m. in the Briggs Library Curriculum Library.
