Guest Commentary: Intervening Early in Reading Troubles Helps Delaware Kids Succeed
Opinion Delaware Online -- Reading Assist Executive Director Caroline O’Neal explains why early reading intervention is the key to developing successful readers.
Reading Assist Fall 2018 Update
Learn about what Reading Assist is up to this Fall.
In the News: Reading Assist Institute in Wilmington graduates 13 reading assistants
Delaware Business Times -- The 13 graduates were the first to undertake the 50-hour training course in the accredited Reading Assist Intervention Program. It’s the only program in Delaware accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council. Just two students out of 17 2nd grade students in the program hit benchmarks for phonemic segmentation at the
VIDEO: Intense literacy program changing lives in New Castle schools
Delaware Online -- Reading Assist Intervention Corps members spend 45 minutes a day, five days a week with students like Bowers teaching the “mechanics of reading" to children who struggle to connect letters and their related sounds, impairing their ability to "decode” words and read fluently.
In the News: About half of Delaware’s third-graders struggle to read
The News Journal -- Jayden Bowers is a third-grader at New Castle Elementary School. He has to sound out a lot of words before he can recognize them. He's making progress every day with the help of one-on-one tutors from Reading Assist, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching the foundations of reading to struggling students.
WSFS Foundation Awards $25,000 Grant to Reading Assist
Delaware Business Now -- “The WSFS Foundation is honored to support RAI; together we will innovate, drive change and build dreams to strengthen the communities we serve." - Vernita Dorsey, Vice President and Director of Community Strategy
In the News: Reading Assist Institute Helps Delaware Kids
NBC10 -- Reading Assist Institute, in Delaware, is a winner of the 21st Century Solutions challenge, which is a program which gives grant money to non-profits making a difference in the community. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors reports.
Reading Assist wins $25,000 21st Century Solutions Grant
Reading Assist Institute will receive $25,000 from NBC10/WCAU and Telemundo62/WWSI, in partnership with the NBCUniversal Foundation, as one of the three winners of the “21st Century Solutions” grant challenge in the Philadelphia area. The grant will support the work of the RAI Reading Corps, a pilot program for reading intervention in partnership with AmeriCorps and the Colonial
