Reading Clinic

For more than 80 years, Rowan University’s Reading Clinic in the College of Education has helped South Jersey students learn to read.

The Clinic provides online or in-person one-on-one tutoring that is student-focused and personalized. Our program includes a professional evaluation to determine reading level followed by instruction tailored to each child’s needs. With curricula focused on word recognition, comprehension and writing, a one-hour investment, twice a week, is time well spent that can change a life!

The Rowan Reading Clinic provides research-based literary assessment and instruction to K-12 students within James Hall.

Learn more about how, for 80 years, the Rowan Reading Clinic has been building better readers!

• Fall: September-December (Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 or 5:10-6:10)
• Spring: January-April (Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 or 5:10-6:10)
• Summer: End of June-End of July (Mondays-Thursdays, 8:55 am-10:10 or 10:20-11:35)

What assessments do we administer?

Each clinic participant undergoes an initial reading evaluation to determine his/her individual strengths and weaknesses and current reading level. Our tutors administer and reading inventory, assessing word recognition, fluency and comprehension. In addition, a developmental spelling inventory is administered. Depending on the child’s needs, emergent literacy assessments may be administered. A retest is administered at the end of the clinic to measure the student’s progress. 

What you should expect from tutoring sessions.

Children receive 20 hours of literacy instruction by 1 or 2 Rowan tutors. Instruction is focused on word recognition, comprehension, fluency and writing.  The content of instruction and methods employed during tutoring are selected from research-based effective practices. At the conclusion of a Clinic, the tutor writes a final report that includes testing scores from the initial and final assessment, a detailed description of strategies taught, how the child responded and recommendations for further tutoring.  This report is given to the parents/guardians when the Clinic is complete.