Reading Partners Silicon Valley kicks off ‘Resolutions for Reading’ to support struggling readers

For Immediate Release

Contact:   

Aarika Riddle
Executive Director, Reading Partners Silicon Valley
(650) 644-9156  |  aarika.riddle@staging.readingpartners.org

READING PARTNERS SILICON VALLEY SEEKS TO INSPIRE ‘RESOLUTIONS FOR READING’ DURING NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH

230 students are ready to be matched with volunteer tutors

Milpitas, CA — January 5, 2018

“As a mentor to a Reading Partners student, I want to have the same impact that my mentor had on me. My top priority is to build our students up into confident learners and to push them to their fullest potential.” – A Reading Partners volunteer tutor

Each year, National Mentoring Month celebrates the power of mentoring relationships and calls for more people to play a supportive role in the lives of children. This January, Reading Partners is sharing stories of mentorship from community volunteers, AmeriCorps members, and staff. The campaign is designed to inspire others to make Resolutions for Reading in the new year by providing students in under-resourced schools with the tutoring and mentorship they need to become proficient readers by the fourth grade.

A proven, national nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to work one-on-one with struggling readers, Reading Partners is determined to serve 820 students in Silicon Valley in the 2017-18 school year. Currently, there are over 230 students at 14 local elementary schools waiting to be matched with tutors. Now is the time for our community to make Resolutions for Reading to ensure that our students have the reading skills and confidence they need to be successful in school and in life.

“Our volunteers play such a critical role for the students they work with. In addition to improving literacy skills, our tutors also serve as mentors to their students which is a powerful experience for both parties,” said Aarika Riddle, Executive Director of Reading Partners Silicon Valley.

Reading Partners volunteers utilize an easy-to-follow, individualized lesson plan each week in order to meet students at their level and help them make the critical transition from learning to read to reading to learn.

Reading Partners Silicon Valley has an immediate need for volunteer tutors who can commit at least an hour a week to work with students in the following schools:

Redwood City School District

• Hawes Elementary School – 909 Roosevelt Ave, Redwood City, CA 94061

• Selby Lane Elementary School – 170 Selby Ln, Atherton, CA 94027

Sunnyvale School District

• Lakewood Elementary School – 750 Lakechime Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

• San Miguel Elementary School – 777 San Miguel Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Mt. Pleasant Elementary School District

• Robert Sanders Elementary School – 3411 Rocky Mountain Dr, San Jose, CA 95127

To learn more about volunteering with Reading Partners, please email volunteerSV@readingpartners.org or call (408) 945-5720.

About Reading Partners

Reading Partners empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has provided proven, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 45,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visitstaging.readingpartners.org to learn more about our program impact, or connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

Recently, Reading Partners was recognized as a Best Practice Honoree during the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The 2017 awards program honored 15 organizations for outstanding work in the field of literacy and implementation of best practices in literacy promotion.

Reading Partners volunteer tutors work with their students (photo credits: Reading Partners)