Student Spotlight

Richard - College Park Elementary

Richard is a third grade student at College Park Elementary School in San Mateo. Richard is participating in the YES Reading program for his second year and is an incredibly enthusiastic and motivated learner. Richard says he enjoys being a part of YES Reading because he likes to read and “it is good to get help with reading.” Richard’s favorite books are the Goosebumps series and the Magic Tree House books. He says that he likes these types of stories because they are sometimes scary and sometimes funny too.   
As A YES Reading student, Richard is working on strengthening his comprehension reading skills with his tutors. Having just started the comprehension curriculum, Richard is enjoying learning how to use the Word Net and the Wonderous Words Journal. In the classroom, Richard says that he is learning about writing narrative essays and enjoys using his imagination to tell stories. Most recently, Richard wrote a story about a boy who surfs.  While Richard explains that he has never been surfing, he is looking forward to learning one day. Richard also says that he likes school because it helps you to learn things that you need when you grow up, “like math problems.” Richard went on to say that he likes to practice his multiplication tables with his dad. When asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Richard responds confidently, “a soccer player.”

Volunteer Spotlight

Sophie Wong

Sophie Wong has been a YES Reading tutor at College Park Elementary School for the past year, beginning in the winter of 2006. Sophie first found out about YES Reading through an article in the San Jose Mercury News. Sophie tutors two students, a first grader and a third grader. During tutoring sessions and coffee hours, Sophie generously shares her experiences and insights as a literacy tutor with newer volunteers and the site director.

1)  Why Sophie became a volunteer with YES Reading... Sophie is the mother of two daughters. When her daughters were in elementary school she volunteered in their classrooms. From the experience of helping children’s learning in the classroom...

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YES Reading Expands to East Palo Alto

Completing its 2007-8 expansion, this month YES Reading will open its 8th Reading Center on the campus of East Palo Alto Charter School (EPACS).Founded in 1997, EPACS was the first charter school established in East Palo Alto and among the first in the state. In 2004 it joined the Aspire network, which also includes one of YES Reading's Oakland school sites: Berkley Maynard Academy.

Thanks to excellent leadership and a corps of talented teachers, EPACS is the only elementary school in East Palo Alto to ...

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Because schedules change, minimum days happen, and special training opportunities occur, find out what is happening at your center.

Belle Haven

Berkley Maynard

Castro

College Park

East Palo Alto Charter School

Horace Mann

Montague

Selby Lane

Sam Liccardo Visits Horace Mann

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YES Reading is adding another dimension to its already very successful Home Connections program: The Family Literacy Project. Parents with children in the YES Reading program are coming together once a month to improve their own literacy, and learn strategies to help their children succeed in school.

Rosa Salinas, Director of the Home Connections Program said, “We want our parents to realize the critical role they play as their children’s first teacher, and feel comfortable to participate in their child’s schooling.”

The new Family Literacy Project is piloting at YES Reading’s three full time centers, Mariano Castro in Mountain View, Selby Lane in Atherton, and Belle Haven in Menlo Park. Each one hour session focuses on a different strategy parents can use to help their student in school. The skills are very simple to enact...

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