Explore nature of educational partnerships between schools and mentors.

• Focus of analysis is:
• inter-individual relationships at community and school levels

• Review of research literature
• Observation in schools
• Education policy analysis

• need to develop knowledge of context
• an informal yet in school program

Examine relationships among mentors and students and teachers

• Focus of analysis is:
• inter-individual

• focused group interviews with mentors
• interviews with teachers
• student feedback via response logs
• observation

• helps build rapport with facilitators and learners
• observing and interviewing provides data gathering in context

Examine the mentor program as a model of literacy education

• assess effectiveness of program

• literacy research and transactional models of literacy
• examine responses to read aloud book collection and response activities
• students response logs
• mentor response logs
• focus group meetings with mentors
• focus group meeting with teachers

• evidence of how program developed
• compare with other programs
• develop national profile of literacy issues
• describe literacy strategies and model used in mentor program