Read Alliance

Read Alliance provides striving READers with the building blocks to academic success through phonics instruction based on the Science of Reading. Our leveled reading program reinforces foundational reading skills and phonemic awareness. While early literacy remains at the core of the mission, the unique model also employs teens to provide high dosage tutoring to their younger peers, tackling a secondary challenge of youth unemployment, particularly among low-income,and young people of color.

READ students receive the one-to-one support in foundational reading skills they require to catch up to their peers, and gain the confidence to thrive academically in their classrooms.READ provides early literacy intervention to K-2nd graders in public schools and community based organizations in all five boroughs in NYC through our School Year and Summer Reading Programs. Our near-peer tutoring model employs teens from the same communities as our students to deliver our proven intervention model.

Our School Year and Summer Reading Programs provide 45 sessions of one-to-one high dosage tutoring. Each session also incorporates Read Alouds to build reading confidence, and a lending library to allow students to take books home and encourage practicing their skills outside of the program.