College students build community and literacy skills through new tutoring program
A new literacy tutoring program is up and running in Davidson, thanks to a group of college students and the support of their community.
May 20, 2025
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A new literacy tutoring program is up and running in Davidson, thanks to a group of college students and the support of their community.
Read Charlotte’s work on listening comprehension going forward includes four key initiatives.
After a successful pilot of a new tutoring curriculum, the staff at Ada Jenkins Center was eager to use it to serve more students, at even younger ages.
Kindergarten is a critical year for early literacy, so much so that Read Charlotte’s updated strategy includes a focus on kindergarten success, and one of our major initiatives is a new tutoring tool called Queen City Readers that helps build basic word reading skills.
At Read Charlotte we use insights from high-quality, rigorous research to seek leverage points that can help our community improve early literacy from birth through third grade.
It’s often said it takes a village to raise a child, and, in that spirit, organizations in our community are working together to strengthen the supports available to local families raising young children.
Read Charlotte is a community initiative that unites educators, community partners, and families to improve children’s reading from birth to third grade. We don’t run programs. We are a capacity-building intermediary that supports local partners to apply evidence-based knowledge about effective reading instruction and interventions, high-quality execution, continuous improvement, and data analysis to improve reading outcomes.
Read Charlotte is a civic initiative of Foundation For The Carolinas.