If you love exploring books, young children and having fun,
becoming an Everybody Wins mentor is for you!

As a Reading Mentor, you meet for approximately one hour a week on Tuesdays, one-to-one, with an elementary school student.  First and second grade students have their lunch period from 11:30AM to 12:30PM; third, fourth and fifth grade students have lunch from 10:45AM to 11:30AM

Reading Mentors may want to bring their own lunch; books are available at the school site.  The Reading Mentor may touch base weekly with the School Coordinator, who is an EW! VT staff member, at the school site.  

The Reading Mentor has lunch, talks with and listens to the child, reads aloud with the child, and encourages the child’s interest in reading by exploring books and word games together.  The Reading Mentor also provides positive, consistent, weekly attention.

• Have fun reading!
• Build relationships by talking about shared interests, by reading aloud with their students, and by being positive and consistent.
• Make a commitment to volunteer for one school year and are encouraged to continue reading with the same child in following years.
• Receive support from Everybody Wins! Vermont, specifically from the School Coordinator.
• Provide structure in the Power Lunch by bringing or helping select the reading material, by keeping their students engaged, and by encouraging questioning and conversation.
• Stay with the student during each session, and escort them in the hallways and at the end of the Power Lunch to their next destination.

Volunteers in the Everybody Wins program submit an application form  which includes a work address and phone number, the names of personal and work references and a signature which signifies commitment to the program standards.  Download the "Everybody Wins! Vermont  Power Lunch Reading Mentor Application 2006-2007" application: Microsoft Word OR PDF format.

In addition, mentors must sign a confidentiality agreement .  Mentors are encouraged to sign a media release: Children love to have their picture taken with their mentor!  All volunteers at Shelburne Community School must be fingerprinted and have an FBI criminal background check.  Download the Shelburne Community School Statement of Confidentiality and Ethics form: Microsoft Word OR PDF format.