Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ) Foundation
Mission:
READ employs one-on-one research-based reading instruction to prepare at-risk children to become proficient readers. READ recruits, trains and employs teens to teach reading skills to their younger peers who are struggling with learning to read. READ targets economically disadvantaged students and teens.
Contact Information
Address: 80 Maiden Lane, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Telephone: (646) 867-6102
Website: http://www.readnyc.org
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General Information
Type: Reading/Literacy
Target audience: Students, Parents, Teachers
Tag words: one-on-one reading instruction, tutoring, Reading for All Learners Program, RALP, curriculum, beginning readers, phonemic, text decoding, fluency, comprehension
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After School and InSchool Reading Programs
Description: READ’s After School and In School Reading Programs take place over approximately fifteen weeks during the school year and provide forty-five minutes of one-on-one tutoring for a minimum of four times per week. Each child receives a minimum of forty-five hours of one-on-one reading instruction during the course of the program. All READ tutoring sessions employ the Reading for All Learners Program (RALP) research-based curriculum for beginning readers and focus on building phonemic awareness, text decoding, fluency and comprehension skills. Tutors in READ’s After School and In Schoo
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READ’s Summer Reading Program
Description: READ’s Summer Reading Program takes place over a five-week period during July and August and includes instructional sessions every weekday. Instructional sessions are four hours long and include two forty-five minute one-on-one tutoring sessions as well as supplemental literacy related activities (i.e. small group reading related to a theme of the week, journal writing and art activities). Each child receives 100 hours of support including 37.5 hours of one-on-one tutoring. During READ’s Summer Reading Program, tutors are paid. Teens who have volunteered in the After School and In School Reading Programs and who have demonstrated exemplary commitment and professionalism are selected to fill these positions. READ summer programming takes place in two types of school settings: schools where approximately 25 students are served and in larger “Literacy Centers” where 60 to 90 students from the surrounding neighborhood are served
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