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Children who don't have books read to them are more likely to become adults who are unemployed, homeless, or incarcerated. Wednesday was Houston Reads Day. Some area leaders and athletes read to students at school. ....
Hundreds of community leaders, athletes and others were recruited by Literacy Now Houston to read to 14,000 students Wednesday at both Houston ISD and Aldine ISD. ....
Literacy Now Needs Volunteers for Houston Reads Day 2021 Sign up now to read to a child on March 2. You ll be glad you did. By Gwendolyn Knapp 12/30/2020 at 6:00am Reading (intervention) is fun for all. Want to give back in the new year? The first-ever Houston Reads Day, hosted by nonprofit Literacy Now, will bring together 400 volunteers to read to 10,000 kindergartenâthird graders on March 2, all in an effort to raise awareness for our city s growing literacy crisis, and you, yes you, can volunteer to read remotely at the virtual event. About our literacy crisis: In Houston, 41 percent of young children aren t ready for kindergarten, and 63 percent of third graders don t read at grade level. Worse still, the recent Gulf Coast Coronavirus (COVID-19) Community Impact Survey found that nine in 10 Houston families with children under 18 reported negative impacts on education and schooling from the pandemic. So, y ....