The Rising Stars Reading Program: Using Mentors to Support Struggling Readers
Rising Stars is a reading program that utilizes reading mentors from the community. The strategy has been tested and adopted by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board's First Avenue Public School, in Ottawa, Ontario, and is based on a teacher researcher project piloted at the Peel District School Board's Hawthorn Public School, in Mississauga, Ontario. This approach, based on more than 20 years of experiential research in reading, is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Education.