Charter School Benefits

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9/19/16
Ms. Kia Hayes
Executive Director
Girls4Girls Foundation
1837 Girls Road, Pa 10015

Dear Ms. Kia Hayes,

Universal Vare Charter School is pleased to present this proposal for your review. We look forward to partnering with you to provide a reading program for our students with poor reading skills called Learning Without Limits! Universal Vare Charter School has over 400 students with about half at risk with a reading performance of at least two years behind their current grade level. The objective of the Learning Without Limits! program is to help all students with poor reading skills master their grade level and increase their reading speed, comprehension, and reading attention span.

This past year, we have been experiencing
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program is to enable at risk students and students with reading impairment to improve their reading skills so they can succeed in school and grow in reading skills that will arrange them for high school and furthering their education.

Program Description

Universal Vare Charter School, Learning Without Limits! program will enable at risk students to improve their reading skills through using five computers provided with scanners and reading software. Students using this innovative reading system will be able to use all their classroom resources, including textbooks providing them access to the general curriculum. The students will improve their reading skills and comprehension, which will help them obtain classroom subject proficiency. Included in the Learning Without Limits! program will be a day of training for the reading specialist and classroom teachers on the new program and use of the WYNN™Literacy Software Solution.

WYNN™Literacy Software
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WYNN was developed with the help of special educators and individuals with learning difficulties. With the WYNN™Literacy Software Solution, a student with reading difficulties has access to textbooks and classroom materials shown as an exact image on the computer screen. The text is then read aloud using the WYNN™Literacy Software, with human sounding speech while highlighting words and sentences visually on the screen. One of the benefits of using this program is reading technology, such as the WYNN™Literacy Software Solution, is that students are able to access classroom textbooks and general curriculum materials. In addition to this reading device, WYNN™ includes audible tools to assist word decoding such as syllabification and spelling, and tools to assist with writing such a spell-checking and

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