Organization and Contact
Program Overview
Works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities.
Read Alliance helps to shrink the achievement gap by pairing early elementary children with high school students trained and paid to provide one-to-one tutoring in foundational reading skills.
Individual phonics-based reading tutoring sessions complemented by literacy enhancements that include read alouds and lending library books.
Students and Offerings
Delivery Model and Staffing
Teachers/educators from the partner sites are employed by READ to help supervise the program and assist with family outreach during traditional programming to encourage enrollment. This outreach is complemented by invitations to families to participate in an “open house†during program to observe how the sessions are run, and invitations to families to attend the completion ceremony at the conclusion of each program cycle. Throughout the series, children bring home “Got Growth†charts that communicate the child’s level, the number of books read, and an encouraging comment from the child’s teen tutor. During the virtual program, READ facilitates a special family orientation before program begins to help provide the framework of the program, provide specific instructions for signing on and how best to support their child while in READ.
Customer and Cost
Research Evidence
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