Help your PreK-3rd grade kids
stay on track with a FREE Reading Checkup! With this tool, Mecklenburg County families receive targeted recommendations for specific reading skills to focus on at home, while choosing from activities that meet the child’s needs.
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Become a volunteer tutor
with HELPS, Augustine Literacy Project and/or Heart Math! These are currently virtual opportunities to support children as a volunteer tutor.
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Donate
to support our efforts to build home libraries for kids and eliminate the book desert across Mecklenburg County.
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Read Charlotte is all about collaboration and coordination. The entire community can play a role in helping thousands of kids in reading.
Join the fight for literacy in Charlotte-Mecklenburg!
Become a reading or math tutor in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Current tutoring opportunities include both in-person and virtual options.
Contributions to Read Charlotte help build home libraries for children, support community education efforts, strengthen family engagement or support the Transformation Fund, which invests in evidence-based literacy programs.
Give a free Reading Checkup to the PreK-3rd grade child in your life. After two simple quizzes, you’ll get an individualized reading plan and fun activities to practice at home.
Read Charlotte recognizes ordinary people in Mecklenburg County doing extraordinary things to improve children’s language and literacy (birth through third grade).
Donate gently used books to Promising Pages or make a donation to help us buy new diverse and inclusive books through our partnership with Reading Is Fundamental.
Help us provide families with Literacy Kits to support their use of the Reading Checkup at home.
Read Charlotte is a community initiative that unites families, educators and community partners to improve children’s literacy from birth to third grade with a goal of doubling reading proficiency from 39% to 80%. Reading proficiency at third grade is a critical predictor of school, career and life success. Children who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.