Reading Partners

Reading Partners is a children's literacy nonprofit based in Oakland, California with programs in over 40 school districts throughout California, New York, Washington DC, Maryland, Texas, Colorado, South Carolina, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Washington.

[2] Teachers refer students to the campus Reading Partners program, where they receive the one-on-one attention of a trained volunteer tutor for ninety minutes each week.

Tutoring sessions focus on building students’ reading skills in five critical areas of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Upon entry into Reading Partners, every student is assessed using the Rigby PM Ultra Benchmarking Kit and placed into one of the three programs depending on the child's individual needs.

Starting with just three volunteers working in the school library, the organization quickly grew to serve more than 100 children at Belle Haven and began replicating to nearby Title I elementary schools.