Read 718

During the 2022-23 school year, Read 718 served 210 children, providing over 8,000 hours of one-to-one and small group instruction. For each 10 week cycle, we served between 55-65 students in Read 718 after school (in-person, in our two literacy centers) and between 45-55 students in Read 718 remote (the online version of our core after school program). In addition, we served 115 students across all of our summer 2023 programming, which includes summer reading room (in person and remote), rising readers, and word up. While Read 718 after school and Read 718 remote are our two largest programs, serving a combined 143 students last year, over the course of the academic year we also served 11 children in Read up, 21 students in saturday reading room, 16 children in rising readers, and 12 children in word up. Expanded programming: we are proud of the breadth of programming that we offer to our community and of our responsiveness in creating programs that meet our students where they are in their literacy development. In the past year, in response to our students' needs, we added two new programs: rising readers and word up. Rising readers is a summer program offered to rising 3rd graders who need systematic, sequential phonics instruction; and word up is a summer program designed for 4th and 5th graders who need additional support in word identification and spelling. We served 18 students in those two programs last year.