Be Someone’s Hero by Helping a Child Read (East Bay)

Reading Partners brings volunteers into local classrooms to serve as reading tutors to struggling students. You can help a child gain critical literacy skills, build confidence, and thrive in school.

Become a classroom champion.

Since 1999, volunteers like you have used our structured, easy-to-use curriculum to help over 12,000 students become excellent readers. Our students love their reading partners. By devoting one hour per week, our volunteers become skilled tutors, role models, and friends to their students.

Tutoring with Reading Partners is an easy way to make a big impact in the life of a child. When you work one-on-one with a student, you can change someone's life—maybe your own.

No prior experience is necessary to become a tutor.

What: Change a student's life by joining our team of committed reading partners today!

When: 1 hour a week can help a student thrive.

Where: Become a volunteer reading tutor at any of the following schools in the East Bay!

• Berkley Maynard Elementary School --- 6200 San Pablo Ave (North Oakland)
• Cox/Reach Academies --- 9860 Sunnyside St (East Oakland / Iveywood)
• Brookfield Elementary School --- 401 Jones Ave (Oakland South / Airport)
• Learning Without Limits Elementary School --- 2035 40th Ave (Oakland - Fruitvale / Maxwell Park)
• Think College Now Elementary School --- 2825 International Blvd. (Oakland - Fruitvale)
• Riverside Elementary School --- 1300 Amador St. (San Pablo)
• Hillside Elementary School --- 15980 Marcella St. (San Leandro)
• Longwood Elementary School --- 850 Longwood Ave. (Hayward)
• Allendale Elementary School --- 3670 Penniman Avenue (Allendale/Lower Laurel)