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Become a Volunteer Reading Buddy!

Download Application Form

2023 KEYS Online Reading Resource Programme Volunteer Reading Buddy Application Form (pdf)Download

Our Buddies

There's no buddy like a Reading Buddy!

There's no buddy like a Reading Buddy!

There's no buddy like a Reading Buddy!

KEYS virtual Reading Programme enables volunteers to make an impact  from any location, including the comfort of their own home.

A Reading Buddy Story

There's no buddy like a Reading Buddy!

There's no buddy like a Reading Buddy!

"A journey well shared is a journey well enjoyed." - Unknown

Listen to Haille's Reading Buddy journey! Haille is the Head Girl at Harrison College, a secondary school in Barbados.

Join Our Team

What are Reading Buddies?

The Reading Buddy programme is a form of peer mentoring which pairs younger students together, allowing them to take turns reading to each other, with guidance from an older student or adult volunteer buddy. This framework allows for authentic reading practice to a live audience and a model of fluent reading.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Benefits for Big Buddies:

  • establish a strong sense of community.
  • further develop their own literacy skills.
  • improved self-confidence.
  • develop interpersonal, leadership, problem-solving skills, communication and time-management skills.
  • meet new people and explore new opportunities.
  • develop a deeper appreciation for the value of reading.


Benefits for Little Buddies:

  • grow as readers by practicing reading aloud and increasing their fluency, phrasing and intonation. 
  • gradually progress from needing to constantly sound out words to reading with accuracy and automaticity.
  • learn positive behaviours, social skills and character traits such as kindness and patience from their Big Buddies.
  • essentially have a personal tutor helping them with their reading.
  • receive immediate feedback and strategies to decode unknown words. 
  • build awareness and comprehension skills as time is allotted to discuss the texts they read.
  • reading to another person naturally motivates them to practice reading fluently. 
  • provides the perfect opportunity to practice phrased and expressive reading.

Reading Buddy Application (You must attach the completed application form).

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Knowledge to Enable Your Success

Maxwell Close, Sanford, St. Philip, Barbados

M (631) 662 4614

ABOUT US

Knowledge to Enable Your Success Inc. (KEYS) is a nonprofit organization founded in Barbados to provide Caribbean youth with quality education that meets global literacy standards and fosters comprehensive development needed to reach their full potential and drive regional, sustainable development.    


VISION

For our nations' youth to have access to education and opportunities that enable them to achieve their full potential.


MISSION

To support, develop and empower Caribbean youth leaders and change agents through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

 

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