As a NC Education Corps literacy tutor, you will work in-person in an assigned placement school at least 3 days a week, with 1-3 students for 30 minutes at a time. You will support K-3 students with their foundational literacy skills, focusing primarily on phonological awareness and phonics instruction. 

Phonological awareness instruction includes:

• Awareness of words within a sentence
• Counting syllables in words
• Recognizing and producing rhyming words 
• Alliteration activities 
• Awareness of individual sounds within words
• Segmenting, blending & manipulating sounds through isolating, deleting, and substituting 

 Phonics instruction deals with printed language and includes but is not limited to:

• Letter / Sound correspondence (identify and produce letters and their sounds)
• Deals with the letters and the various sounds represented by those letters. It is the strategy for sounding-out words. The skill of decoding and blending words is necessary for fluent reading.

You will become an employee of the school district and will be paid hourly (pay rates vary by district). You do not have to have a background in education, because you will be supported by a NCEC learning coach who will provide training, professional development, and support throughout the school year.

Preferred Time Commintment: 15-25 hours per week

Preferred Tutoring Hours: 8am-1pm (times will vary based on intervention times and this will be confirmed in July)

Pay Rate: HS graduate $15 per hour, In college $16 per hour, College degree $20 per hour, Advanced degree $25                 per hour

Qualifications Required:

• High school diploma
• Desire to work with children and serve your community by extending the reach of teachers in your local school district