Building Great Readers – The Learning Place

Become Part of a Child's Success and Help Combat the Privilege Gap

Developing strong readers requires instruction, practice, and the opportunity to hear wonderful stories read aloud every day. Our trained tutors provide instruction, but we need your help to support all the other essential activities that build solid readers, students, community members, and future leaders. You will provide the interactions and supports that most impact the equity-based achievement gap!!!

It's Not Just Story Time

"Interactive read-alouds" accelerate all aspects of literacy development, and they're fun! Hearing stories read aloud is the best way for children to learn about the world, build vocabulary, practice inference and critical thinking, self-reflect, think creatively, and practice verbal expression.

We need 2 helpers per weekday in each K-6 location, to read to students by age group and supervise literacy and enrichment activities while tutors are working 1:1 and in small groups. The format for interactive read-alouds is quite simple, and we'll show you how.