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<p>The General Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs-West Side, a volunteer community service organization, recently provided a tutoring/literacy program for kindergarten students at Wyoming Valley West Dana Elementary School.</p><p>The program runs from September through May and it supports the GFWC-PA State President&#8217;s Project &#8220;Enrich, Educate, Empower &#8212; Every Child Every Day.&#8221; Club members tutored four kindergarten classes with 92 students participating in the program in conjunction with the school&#8217;s Breakfast Club, peer tutoring and intervention strategies. Volunteers helped students in recognizing 2- and 3-dimensional shapes, identifying numbers , counting in sequence to 100, identifying capital and lower case letters, recognizing letter/sound relationships, and identifying sight words as well as reading.</p><p>The tutoring program will resume in September.</p><p>First row from left: tutors Flo Dougherty, Deidre Kaminski , GFWC Education Chairman; Linda McGeehan, Gina Rushkowski. Seconnd row: tutors Karen French, Jackie Corbett and Mr. David Bond, principal Dana Elementary School. Third row: Mr. Irv DeRemer, superintendent Wyoming Valley West School District; and Mrs. Maylan Nicholson, Dana Elementary school counselor. Also participating were Marge Gushka and Shelley Russin.</p><style>
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GFWC-West Side promotes education/literacy at Dana Elementary Center