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Kindergarten is a critical year for early literacy, so much so that Read Charlotte’s updated strategy includes a focus on kindergarten success, and one of our major initiatives is a new tutoring tool called Queen City Readers that helps build basic word reading skills.
At Read Charlotte we use insights from high-quality, rigorous research to seek leverage points that can help our community improve early literacy from birth through third grade.
It’s often said it takes a village to raise a child, and, in that spirit, organizations in our community are working together to strengthen the supports available to local families raising young children.
Take a deeper look at North Carolina’s standards for third grade reading outcomes.
The partnership between First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte and Westerly Hills Academy is a strong one, one that the school principal describes as a flagship model of a successful school-community relationship.
Summer learning loss is a very real and well-known problem, and one that Read Charlotte and the YMCA of Greater Charlotte were eager to address.
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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