Volunteer To Be A Camp iRock Reading Buddy This Summer

As a Reading Buddy volunteer, you will spend time with Camp iRock campers on a regular basis to help them improve their literacy skills and inspire a love of reading and books. You will provide encouragement as a child succeeds, and you will be able to model through your own actions that reading is fun!

The ideal Camp iRock Reading Buddy would be able to serve twice a week for 30 minutes or more during June. However, some flexibility is possible. Volunteers will receive training and supervision from the School District of Pickens County and will coordinate all activities with Camp iRock teaching staff to support and extend the literacy learning that is occurring in the Camp iRock classroom.

Reading Buddies should be patient and encouraging, good communicators with excellent listening skills, able to work one-to-one with young people at their pace, passionate about literacy, fluent in English and a competent reader, and able to interact with children from diverse backgrounds.

Reading Buddies will have the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with a child, see a child’s reading skills and confidence grow, share your love of reading and books with children, and use your creativity and innovation to facilitate learning.

All Reading Buddy volunteers must be 18 years of age or older and will be screened through a SLED background check.

For More Information

Contact Karen Culley, Vice President of Community Impact, 864-850-7094 x 102 to learn more.

WHEN

Monday-Thursdays

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

(Possible afternoon hours available)

WHERE

McKissick Academy, Easley

Liberty Elementary, Liberty

Pickens Elementary, Pickens

COMMITMENT

Prefer a minimum of 30 minutes, twice a week (flexible)

Apply Now!

Submit your application by filling out the form below:

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Please tell us why you would like to be a Reading Buddy and what you hope to gain from this volunteer experience.

Do you have any previous experience in education or working with children?

Please describe any previous volunteer experience and any special talents or skills you feel would benefit Camp iRock.

Can you commit to serving at least once per week during Camp?

Where is your preferred site to serve?

I certify that my answers are true and complete to the best of my knowledge. If this application leads to a volunteer position with Camp iRock, I understand that false or misleading information in my application may result in my release.

By signing below, I authorize United Way of Pickens County to conduct a criminal background investigation through the SC Law Enforcement Division (SLED) as part of its volunteer screening process.

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