Success for Struggling Readers

Closing the Literacy Gap

Literacy specialist smiling while tutoring a young student during reading instruction

Reading Support for Kids Who Need It Most

We believe that no child should struggle when success is within reach. For more than 35 years, Reading Assist has been putting reading success within reach for K–3 students in the lowest 25% for reading proficiency. By embedding trained literacy specialists directly into schools and communities, we deliver a holistic, science-of-reading-based literacy solution. Through direct high-impact tutoring, professional learning, and school-based capacity building, we ensure struggling readers and the educators who serve them have the tools to pave the way for lifelong learning.

Our Impact

Our initiatives deliver research-based interventions to the students and communities that need them most. We measure the impact of our work in terms of students reached, schools partnered, and system-level change, aiming to cultivate the conditions that allow the research-based innovations we support to take root and thrive.

Students served across our regional network annually

Partner schools and community sites actively engaged in literacy programming

Students reaching benchmarks in at least one foundational reading skill

Kindergartners successfully meeting critical grade-level benchmarks

Tutors deployed across the region

Educators trained annually

Average oral reading fluency growth compared to the expected 46% rate

More than three times the expected rate of oral reading fluency growth