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<p>United Way of Wyoming Valley is expanding its Real Men Read program to the Wyoming Valley West School District this year, serving eight new classrooms which will support more than 200 incoming kindergarteners.</p><p>Real Men Read connects volunteer MENtors from the community with kindergarten classes in schools with high-risk student populations in an effort to encourage reading and learning in young children. Real Men Read has already been serving students in the Wilkes-Barre Area and Greater Nanticoke Area School Districts and, with Wyoming Valley West, will provide readers to 29 classrooms and serve 865 children.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Volunteer MENtors who will read to students at State Street Elementary in Larksville recently met to prepare for the coming school year. From left, seated, are Nicholas Alapack, MENtor; Ashley Morrow, United Way Real Men Read coordinator; Jeffrey Demko, MENtor. Standing, David Rehm, MENtor; Jacob Sholtis, principal, State Street Elementary; Ron Simon, MENtor. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/web1_RealMenRead-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Volunteer MENtors who will read to students at State Street Elementary in Larksville recently met to prepare for the coming school year. From left, seated, are Nicholas Alapack, MENtor; Ashley Morrow, United Way Real Men Read coordinator; Jeffrey Demko, MENtor. Standing, David Rehm, MENtor; Jacob Sholtis, principal, State Street Elementary; Ron Simon, MENtor. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>

Real Men Read program expands into Wyoming Valley West School District