America Reads
America Reads facilitates a partnership between the University of Northern Iowa and local public schools to strengthen literacy skills and an enjoyment of reading in children.
This service-learning experience:
- helps UNI students develop their teaching and leadership skills as they select, plan, and implement fun, interactive, engaging lessons -- while contributing to the greater social good!
- benefits local school children as they engage in shared reading, guided reading, and a variety of creative literacy experiences in a book club.
Through their mentoring of local students, our UNI students promote literacy in the community.
Our Director
Sunah Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor of Literacy
sunah.chung@uni.edu
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Become a Book Club Leader
Join our team as a book club leader! Any UNI student may apply to be a leader. If you have federal work-study on your financial aid package, you can be compensated for your involvement. If you do not have work-study, you can volunteer as a leader. For more information about being a book club leader, see the application link below.
Book club leaders for Spring 2024
![America Reads Leaders Spring 2024](/sites/default/files/inline-uploads/america-reads_leaders_2024_spring.jpg)
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Learn more
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Book Club Leaders Archives
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