Reading tutoring by UNLV students is available to elementary school children at their schools through the America Reads Challenge, a federally funded program based on the university campus.

Currently, 40 UNLV students tutor more than 180 children at four local elementary schools. Program organizers hope to expand the number of elementary schools served in the coming year.

Funded through the Reading Excellence Act of 1997, the program was developed that year with the goal of ensuring that all Clark County School District students can read fluently and with comprehension by the end of third grade.

All tutors participate in a 20-hour training program prior to tutoring the children. Each tutor works one-on-one with a child for 30 minutes a day, three or four times a week.

For more information, call program coordinator Diane Brantley at 895-4997.