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Our Mission
Working in partnership with underserved schools,
Reading Power provides one-to-one tutoring during the school day for children in prekindergarten through second grade. Our mission is to accelerate children's literacy learning, and to develop in them a love of reading and writing. All children deserve to reach their intellectual potential! Reading Power makes a difference!
Reading Power serves children in North Chicago, Waukegan, Zion, Illinois; and Beaufort, South Carolina by providing early literacy interventions to prekindergarten to second grade students.
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Population Served
Reading Power tutors children in North Chicago and Zion, Illinois, and Beaufort, South Carolina. These communities reflect Reading Power’s mission to offer programs in underserved districts in which less than 50 percent of third grade students meet reading benchmarks.
According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 41.9 percent of North Chicago families with children under the age of five are living below the national poverty level. In Beaufort, the percentage is 22 percent.
Although living in poverty does not cause language impairment in all students, “Children from low-income families have been shown to have limited input, in terms of volubility and quality, when compared to children from wealthier families, and these differences have been linked to delayed language abilities.” (Roseberry-McKibbin, 2012, p. 5)
Reading Power tutors children in North Chicago and Zion, Illinois, and Beaufort, South Carolina. These communities reflect Reading Power’s mission to offer programs in underserved districts in which less than 50 percent of third grade students meet reading benchmarks.
According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 41.9 percent of North Chicago families with children under the age of five are living below the national poverty level. In Beaufort, the percentage is 22 percent.
Although living in poverty does not cause language impairment in all students, “Children from low-income families have been shown to have limited input, in terms of volubility and quality, when compared to children from wealthier families, and these differences have been linked to delayed language abilities.” (Roseberry-McKibbin, 2012, p. 5)
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"We love having Reading Power in our district. By providing our students with the opportunity to receive targeted and individualized reading support by trained tutors, some of our neediest learners have really flourished. "Reading Power offers an unmatched opportunity for us to partner with an organization that is as committed as we are to improving the academic success of our students. Our Reading Power students have made such huge gains that we know that Reading Power, with its highly trained tutors and embedded site supervision, has played an enormous role in these students' success." – Keely Roberts, Superintendent, Zion District 6 |
