Reading Window School

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The Reading Window School is a small non-profit which assists often disadvantaged children with literacy problems in rural central Virginia. The Reading Window School uses an innovative one-to-one tutoring method designed by its founder Piper Martin.

Students start reading single words through a four sided "window" and as their comprehension and performance improves the sides of the window are slowly removed, one at a time, until ultimately there is no window at all. This intensive program meets with both the student and a parent or guardian 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Adult involvement is considered an important portion of the program in that it both trains the parents in the nature of the techniques and invests the family in the process.

The Reading Window techniques have a high level of effectiveness. Over 90% of the graduates reach their grade level in literacy after just 6 weeks.

The Reading Window School is supported by the Charlottesville Area Community Fund, the BAMA Works Fund (associated with the Dave Matthews Band), the Optimist Club of the Blue Ridge and the Rappahannock Electricity Cooperative.

Piper Martin lives at Twin Oaks Community which provides some of the classroom space used by the Reading Window School and provides volunteer labor for the program.

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