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Save the Date for the 4th Annual Houston Reads Day: March 1, 2024

Houston, we just don't have a problem. We have a crisis - a literacy crisis.

The Need:

73% of 3rd graders in the Houston area do not read at grade level.
41% of young children in the Houston area are not ready for kindergarten.
Students NOT reading on grade level by the 3rd grade are 4 times more likely not to graduate high school.

The Solution:

Since 2006, Literacy Now's programs have made a significant impact on the community, impacting the lives of more than 24,000 children and parents.
Literacy Now provides reading intervention, reading readiness, and trained volunteer mentors to students along with interactive parent engagement programming that is instrumental to children's long-term success.
These programs empower students to read on grade level.

The Opportunity:

Right now, we are ONLY serving 23% of the children who desperately need our Reading Intervention program.
Houston Reads Day is the catalyst to sustain and grow our Reading Intervention program.

Impact - Over the past three years, Houston Reads Day has:

Raised $2.1M to sustain and grow our Reading Intervention program.
Increased the number of students served by 176%.
More than 1,200 volunteers read to more than 24,000 Pre-K-3rd grade students.
Past readers include Mayor Turner, Commissioner Garcia, HISD Superintendent House, local authors, television personalities, and Houston Texans players and cheerleaders.

Join us for Houston Reads Day 2024 - Engage. Impact. Empower

A single day for Houstonians to come together to read to students, support Literacy Now's Reading Intervention program, and bring awareness to the literacy crisis in our city.

· 400 + volunteers

· 40 Houston area schools participating

· 14,000+ Pre-K-3rd grade students read to