Area schools, libraries and literacy programs use volunteers to help children and adults improve reading skills.

Among them are:

Partnership for Learning, an agency of the Baltimore state's attorney's office, works with first-time juvenile offenders who have reading difficulties and learning disabilities. The partnership will train prospective tutors in the multisensory, phonics-based Wilson Learning System of reading instruction, with the next training session set for Saturday. Contact: Mischa Green, 410-396-5092.

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, for after-school centers at Fells Point, the Johns Hopkins medical complex and Southwest Baltimore. Tutors are needed Monday through Thursday to work with students ages 7 to 14 in reading and math. Contact: 410-358-9711.

If your school or organization is seeking volunteer reading tutors and would like to be included in this listing, call Sundial, 410-783-1800, and enter code 6130.

Pub Date: 10/04/98