1. Reading Club Fridays BY: PUJA GHELANI, SAMANA HUSAIN, HELEN FISHER

2. Summary  We are serving the Henrico Adult Education Center. The students are learning English with the help of the VCU Globe students who would volunteer once a month on a Friday. Our goal is to assist them with their language skills as best as we can. In order to help their communication and reading skills, we are proposing a reading club for the students. This program will be for all classes and any students who want to join.

3. Rationale  The students would benefit greatly from independent reading which would stimulate practicing English outside of the class.  This would improve their communication will help the learners to work in groups and form bonds with each other based on their interests and experience with the reading assignments.  The meeting would take place on Fridays once a month.  Any student enrolled in an ESOL program is allowed to join the reading club.  The articles will be picked by either the instructor or the Globe students. Resources

4. Objectives  gain more language skills through reading comprehension  how to effectively communicate their ideas and opinions about the reading.  Five people in each group with the same article  Volunteers would go from group to group to monitor how engaged the students are in the discussions  Volunteers will stimulate conversation among the students and proctor the discussion Methods

5. Evaluation  group members will present their articles and what they learned from it to the rest of the class  We will see how they improve in communicating and reading comprehension as the semester goes on  Would be less than $20 because printing a page would.25 cents  Short stories would be free for use and copyright free.  http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/ which has 100 free short stories for ESL learners http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/ Budget

6. Personal Perspective  Reading is such an important ability and a quick way to develop many language skills.  Seeing the students struggle with pronunciation and communication made us realize that this is important.