A film crew from WBGU films Penny Soboleski working on reading skills with a young student. Photo credit: Kevin Collert

The University’s Reading and Literacy Center, located in the Davis Street building, will soon be seen in 200 Ohio schools, via a training video produced by WBGU, a public television station based in Bowling Green, Ohio.
   
The training video will help teachers, parents and volunteers learn to tutor struggling readers. Funding for the project, which has a working title of “Literacy: A Program for Reading Tutors,” is from a grant awarded to WBGU.
   
On July 7, a film crew set up cameras, lights and equipment and filmed Penny Soboleski, assistant professor of education, tutoring students. Soboleski worked with both a kindergartener and a second grader, using different intervention strategies with each.
   
Soboleski became involved with the project through her collaboration with Dr. Cynthia Bertelsen at Bowling Green State University, who oversees the Martha Gesling Weber Reading Center. Soboleski was contacted by Bertelsen because UF offers reading clinics during the summer, making Findlay’s campus an obvious choice for filming since students were already available.
   
UF’s Reading and Literacy Center is used as a teaching tool in conjunction with an Assessment and Diagnosis of Reading Difficulties course for both undergraduate and graduate students. Students in the classes assess reading levels and identify an area for each reader to receive intervention and improve his or her reading skills.