The Community Read-Aloud Model, which was developed by Read Charlotte in 2024, was designed to empower more community-based organizations to provide high-quality read-alouds in their programs, as the practice is one of the most powerful strategies to help children build comprehension skills.
This pilot initiative supports partners with integrating targeted listening comprehension assessments into their programs, providing a more comprehensive understanding of students’ literacy development.
The Listening Comprehension Resource Center, a first-of-its-kind website featuring curated listening comprehension resources for educators to use in classroom settings, was developed to help increase the level and quality of efforts focused on building this important literacy skill.
This work is focused on helping build strong models of school-community partnerships that can improve school-level literacy outcomes.
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.
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