Zion After-School Tutoring Program is an accredited Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Provider of the Illinois State Board of Education. Our focus is on K-5 students who need help in reading and mathematics skills.

Zion After-School Tutoring will:
• Assist students to learn skills to do homework
• Provide personalized attention prescribed by the results of a basic assessment of skills test
• Offer a safe, secure environment
• Provide a well-equipped computer lab for instruction
• Provide qualified, caring educators
• Broaden the academic experiences of each student
• Help parents help their children

Time Commitment:
Two hours of tutoring per session
Four hours of tutoring per week
Fifty hours of tutoring per contract
Fall, winter, spring, summer sessions

Cost:
Free to students eligible under the No Child Left Behind federal law, meeting income and academic guidelines, who attend qualifying schools in Rockford School District #205.
 

Zion’s After-School Tutoring takes place in a safe, caring environment where instructors provide an individualized learning plan that meets the needs of each student. An after-school snack is provided. Students receive part of their daily instruction and practice by means of the latest technology. Highly-skilled instructors work with children in small groups, or one-on-one as needed. Parents receive regular communications.

Zion After-School Tutoring

Our program offers reading and math assistance to those students who are struggling to reach or maintain grade level proficiency. Our methods instill confidence and skills to enable students in Kindergarten through Fifth grade to overcome their academic obstacles. We individualize instruction to include the following areas needed by each student:

Reading Comprehension
• Written directions
• Cause, effect
• Compare, contrast
• Inferences, conclusions
• Probable outcomes
• Fact, opinion, persuasion
• Plot, main idea
• Topic sentences
• Order of events
• Relevant details
• Setting
• Figurative language
Language Arts
• Nouns, pronouns, articles
• Subject/verb agreement
• Adjectives, adverbs
• Capitalization, punctuation
• Spelling rules
• Vocabulary
• Synonyms, antonyms
• Prefixes, suffixes
• Writing skills
Math Computation & Application
• Whole numbers
• Fractions
• Decimals, percents
• Money
• Addition, subtraction
• Multiplication, division
• Word problems
• Order of operation
• Measurement
• Graphs, tables
• Geometry, algebra