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Intensive one-on-one support tailored to meet each student's individual needs.
The Reading Center at National Louis University will be offering an individualized summer reading program for students entering grades one through twelve at the Lisle and North Shore campuses. Students enrolled in this program receive diagnostic testing and one-to-one tutoring in reading and writing one hour per day, four mornings per week. Licensed teachers who are completing their graduate degrees to become Reading Specialists tutor the children under the supervision of a university professor.
Program Information
Dates: Monday, June 29 through Thursday, July 30, 2020. Children must attend each day for all five weeks. See informational flyers below for details on dates and times of sessions.
Fees: $350.00, program fee payable in advance using our online payment system. In addition, we require a separate attendance deposit of $150.00 upon placement, which will be returned to you if your child does not miss more than one session. Withdrawals after April 17th will result in forfeiture of $350 program fee.
Note: Because this is a teaching program for our graduate teachers, we can only accept students who will be able to attend all of the five-week sessions. Do not submit the application if you are planning a trip or have other expectations for missing sessions. The attendance deposit of $150.00 will not be refunded if more than one session is missed.
Informational Flyers: Lisle Flyer 2020
Program Application
How to Apply:
1. Click here for the Parent Application.
Complete and submit the entire parent portion of the application.
2. Click here to initiate payment. The cost of the program is $350, which will be collected if and when your child is placed in the program. If your child is placed, an attendance deposit in the amount of $150 via check will be collected.
3. Send the link for the SRP school application to your child’s teacher:
School personnel are required to complete and submit the entire school portion of the application.
Note: The teacher(s) are to complete the school information portion of the application and submit supporting documentation (if necessary). Applications from parents who complete the school section will not be accepted.
Each summer we have more requests for tutoring than we can fill. Therefore, we suggest that parents submit their portion of the application and send the link for the school’s portion to the child’s teacher(s) as soon as possible. Because we are a teaching institution, we are required to meet guidelines set forth by the Illinois State Board of Education and the International Literacy Association. Thus, we must match students and tutors according to those guidelines, which compels us to operate on a modified first come-first serve basis.
Applications are only complete when: 1) Parent application is received; 2) School application is received; AND, online payment has been initiated. All forms and fees must be submitted no later than April 1, 2020.
Program fees will be authorized in May; attendance deposit checks will be held until the end of the summer and returned to parents with the final report, if the child has met the attendance guidelines.
Parents will be notified by May 10, 2020 as to whether space is available for your child in the Summer Reading Improvement Program. If accepted, your child will be assigned to a one-hour session. We regret that we are unable to honor all requests for specific time slots. Your child will be placed on a waiting list and your fees will be returned if space is not available. No fees will be returned for students that have been accepted into the program and withdraw after April 17, 2020.
Feel free to contact us should you have further questions: SRPApplications@nl.edu
Dr. Mary Hoch, Director
The Reading Center
630-874-4533
