Learning to Read: Literacy Volunteers Achieve Impressive Gains

After only two hours of training with Sound Reading, volunteers improved struggling readers’ reading comprehension more than one grade level. The students, 2nd and 3rd graders, saw results as dramatic as 2 grade levels of improvement in only 15 lessons.

Benefits Achieved:

The easy to teach program was taught by non-educator volunteers with only two hours of training and made learning to read fun.
Immediate, measurable results were observed, with a whole year of improvement after only 15 lessons.
Students caught up to their peers across the country, moving well above the national average.

Students that were once struggling to learn to read are now high, strong performing readers. Nearly all the students in all three schools were below average at the start of the program. After the program practically every student not only rose above average, but improved close to or above the 70% percentile.

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Success In Three Elementary Schools

Students surge to above average scores in phonemic awareness through the Communities in Schools volunteer literacy program. Phonemic awareness is one of the strongest indicators of reading ability and measures the student’s ability to distinguish different sounds within a word while learning to read. Students that have higher levels of phonemic awareness continue to grow as readers and develop into stronger readers later in life.

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