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Mission Statement

Vision: All children in this nation will have the reading skills they need to reach their full potential. Mission: Help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.

Description

Overview: Reading Partners is dedicated to transforming struggling young readers into confident readers who are excited about learning. How we do it: * Focus on children from low-income communities. * Give one-on-one instruction at the student’s reading level. * Recruit and train community volunteers to work with children. * Partner with high-need elementary schools to offer free services on the school campus. * Provide a way for volunteers to give a small amount of their time to make a huge difference in a child’s life. The Reading Partners program focuses on children from low-income communities who are struggling with reading. Working with partner schools, the program offers children one-on-one tutoring with a caring volunteer who is dedicated to one child's success. Teachers refer English speaking, K-6 students who have fallen behind six months to two years in reading to Reading Partners. Once enrolled, students receive tutoring twice a week in 45-minute sessions. Students who were once struggling in many subjects not only become proud, confident readers, but also transform into children excited about learning and succeeding. Need: Reading is the gateway skill: * Being able to read is integrally tied to succeeding in every subject in school, including math and science. * Children who are behind in reading often have low confidence in their ability to learn, miss out on the joy of learning and decline to participate in the classroom. Results: Reading Achievement: * On average, students jump an entire grade level in reading skills after only 30 hours of Reading Partners tutoring. * Students advance, on average, two and a half times faster than before they had intervention from Reading Partners. How We're Different: One-on-One Tutoring & Mentoring: When students come to Reading Partners, they get individualized reading instruction by a trained volunteer twice a week. Teachers agree that students thrive with the caring attention of one person who serves as both tutor and role model. Curriculum: Volunteers work with Reading Partners' structured curriculum to help students gain multiple literacy skills and concepts. Developed by Education Specialists: The curriculum was developed by educational specialists at Reading Partners in consultation with the faculty and graduate students at the Stanford School of Education and is based on best teaching practices, grade-level requirements and a balanced-literacy approach. The Reading Partners curriculum meets the content standards set by the California Department of Education. for more information, visit our website at www.readingpartners.org

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