Read for Success Foundation

Teachers, homeschoolers, community members; here is a fun program hosted by Pizza Hut that you can use to help encourage kids to follow a reading program. They provide all the trackers throughout the year and information on how it work. There's also a scholarship opportunity!

Home | The Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program BOOK IT! motivates children to read by rewarding their reading accomplishments with praise, recognition and pizza. The program is simple, flexible, fun and free to use in your classroom! BOOK IT! was created in 1984 and currently reaches more than 14 million students and 37,000 PreK-6 grade schools....

This is an interesting article that explains briefly the Covid decline in reading and math scores nationwide. It's not all doom and gloom but we definitely need to stay progressive and make sure our students are getting the assistance they need.

This is and has been a major goal for Read For Success Foundation and I continue to work every day to make sure by 2023 we are implementing programs to assist these students. Stay tuned and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

PROOF POINTS: Six puzzling questions from the disastrous NAEP results Why did 9-year-olds do so badly during the pandemic?

I've read this argument a few times on how we should be focusing more science and history material in our elementary students. I'd love to know your opinion on if you feel your elementary student knows a good amount of knowledge in these fields. I've recently picked up Tuttle Twin series for my kids to begin introducing different thought provoking topics on government.

Why Our Youngest Readers Need ‘Knowledge,’ Not ‘Skills’ To become better readers, Natalie Wexler says, students should grapple with abundant, high-caliber texts in the elementary grades—not just skills and strategies.

Since the pandemic, some schools are finding it hard to keep up with the rhythms of high dose tutoring which is affecting the growth of children's education. We are slowly progressing, especially now that school education boards are understanding the need for new methods of teaching reading. Read for Success Foundation is going to be dedicated to making sure the science of reading methods are adopted in education teaching and also that tutoring is available to those who need it.

PROOF POINTS: Early data on 'high-dosage' tutoring shows schools are sometimes finding it tough to deliver even low doses Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies. The research community urged schools to spend a big chunk of their roughly $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds on what is called “high-dosage” tutoring. That means t...