The YMCA READS! Assistant works at Ruediger Elementary School in Tallahassee, Florida to help the Program Coordinator during YMCA Reads! hours to ensure that outlined program goals and procedures are being achieved. Additional responsibilities include: assisting in student supervision, helping to maintain order, and positively reinforcing "good choices" when appropriate, maintaining necessary paperwork, and assuming responsibilities if the coordinator is absent. YReads is a reading program that uses curriculum-based literacy instruction to help struggling reads in areas of phonetics, sight word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.