The Literacy Center has received a grant that will not only be beneficial to the university, but to the community. International Paper, one of the leading coated paperboard manufacturing facilities in the world, awarded a $1,500 grant to the center to upgrade it to a certified Reading Styles Inventory Diagnostic Center with the National Reading Style Institute.
“We are delighted to begin the process to become a certified Reading Styles Diagnostic Center at the ASU Literacy Center,” says Dr. Paulette Harris, founder and director of ASU’s Literacy Center. “Our recent grant from International Paper will allow us to start that process.”
The center will use the National Reading Styles Institute’s (NRSI) Reading Styles Program, which is a research-based language arts program and an outstanding school reform model that has resulted in high achievement results.
Before going through the tutoring program, all Literacy Center clients will undergo a Reading Styles Inventory, which assesses the client’s reading strength. This allows tutors to determine how the client learns best and then to provide recommendations on the methods and strategies for tutoring and instruction.
The assessments will be performed online, with the results generated for the Literacy Center, the client, and/or parent. Once this process has been completed, clients will be assigned to the appropriate Power Reading Level.
Augusta State was one of 25 local nonprofit organizations to benefit from International Paper’s Augusta Mill’s grant program, in which the IP Foundation provided grants totaling $50,000. For more information about the grant, contact Dr. Paulette Harris, Director of ASU’s Literacy Center.
Sep 26, 2008
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