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After a successful pilot of a new tutoring curriculum, the staff at Ada Jenkins Center was eager to use it to serve more students, at even younger ages.

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.