Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Human Services, Literacy, Public & Societal Benefit, Remedial Reading & Encouragement, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Our mission is to prepare preschool-age children living in low-income communities to become readers by reading aloud to them, providing high-quality books, and offering literacy-related experiences. The vision of Ready Readers is to have all children, regardless of socio-economic status, enter kindergarten with strong early literacy skills and print motivation, which are necessary to become successful readers when they are ready to read.
Results: This school year, an independent evaluator has pre-tested a sample of the preschool-age children in our program using the early literacy skills standards outlined by the Missouri Early Learning Goals. These same children will be tested again at the end of the school year and progress will be evaluated. Our short-term targeted goal is that 85% of the children in our program acquire the emergent literacy skills as defined by state standards. Teachers and our volunteer readers always complete an end-of-the-year evaluation form, asking them about the early literacy skills that their children have acquired over the year
Target demographics: preschool-age children (5 and under) who live in low-income communities
Direct beneficiaries per year: 10,000 preschool age children living in low-income communities
Geographic areas served: the St. Louis metro area and surrounding Missouri and Illinois counties
Programs: Ready Readers is a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring preschool age children from low-income communities to LOVE books and to have the literacy skills necessary to become readers when they are ready to read. Trained, passionate volunteers read high-quality books aloud to the same classroom of children for 30 minutes every week, and then provide stimulating reading-related activities. Seven times during each school year and once during the summer, the volunteer readers also distribute new books for each child to take home and keep.
Mission: Our mission is to prepare preschool-age children living in low-income communities to become readers by reading aloud to them, providing high-quality books, and offering literacy-related experiences. The vision of Ready Readers is to have all children, regardless of socio-economic status, enter kindergarten with strong early literacy skills and print motivation, which are necessary to become successful readers when they are ready to read.
Results: This school year, an independent evaluator has pre-tested a sample of the preschool-age children in our program using the early literacy skills standards outlined by the Missouri Early Learning Goals. These same children will be tested again at the end of the school year and progress will be evaluated. Our short-term targeted goal is that 85% of the children in our program acquire the emergent literacy skills as defined by state standards. Teachers and our volunteer readers always complete an end-of-the-year evaluation form, asking them about the early literacy skills that their children have acquired over the year
Target demographics: preschool-age children (5 and under) who live in low-income communities
Direct beneficiaries per year: 10,000 preschool age children living in low-income communities
Geographic areas served: the St. Louis metro area and surrounding Missouri and Illinois counties
Programs: Ready Readers is a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring preschool age children from low-income communities to LOVE books and to have the literacy skills necessary to become readers when they are ready to read. Trained, passionate volunteers read high-quality books aloud to the same classroom of children for 30 minutes every week, and then provide stimulating reading-related activities. Seven times during each school year and once during the summer, the volunteer readers also distribute new books for each child to take home and keep.
info@readyreaders.org
10403 Baur Blvd, Suite H, St. Louis, MO 63132
314-564-8070
Children & Youth
St. Louis
