The Center for Reading and Language Research

Miller Hall

Tufts University

Medford, MA 02155

Phone: (617) 627-3815

Fax: (617) 627-3827

Community Service

Malden Summer Literacy Enrichment Program
(Katharine Donnelly Adams, Director)

This summer program is a collaboration between the City of Malden, Massachusetts, and the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University. To serve the needs of severely impaired readers and young children who were at risk for reading failure, an intensive four-week reading intervention was developed in the spring of 1998. This will be the fourth year of this very successful program. The school day includes direct phonological instruction, guided reading, writing library visits, and the RAVE-O program (Wolf, Miller, and Donnelly-Adams, 2000). Results for the past two years show that children maintained or increased their reading abilities over the summer, as measured by standardized reading measures.

Malden After-school Program For Success (MAPS)

As the result of the Summer Literacy Program an after-school tutoring program was added in the Fall of 1998. The purpose of this program is to work intensively with at-risk readers, many of whom have been enrolled in the summer programs.

Tufts Literacy Corps
(C. Krug, Director)

This applied arm of the Center involves individualized tutoring of at-risk readers in neighborhood schools. Undergraduate and graduate students are trained as tutors and supervised over a one-year commitment. Work study students receive financial renumeration. For more information, email C. Krug.

Collaborations with ReadBoston, the Learning Disabilities Network, and the Adult Intergenerational Literacy Council

One aspect of the Center's work is to consult with local and national literacy projects. ReadBoston is a city-wide prevention effort to ensure that children learn to read before the end of Grade 3. Center members are part of the Advisory Board of this initiative as well as the Learning Disabilities Network and the Adult Intergenerational Literacy Council. The latter organization includes older adults in ongoing projects with at-risk children in Cambridge and Somerville.

Last updated 3/05