Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Education, Literacy, Primary & Elementary Schools, Remedial Reading & Encouragement, Theater
Mission: Reading In Motion's mission is to get every at-risk student reading at or above grade level in the first years of school through the power and discipline of the arts.
Target demographics: Low-income kindergarten and first grade students in Chicago
Direct beneficiaries per year: 3,776
Geographic areas served: Chicago, IL
Programs: Benchmarks is a world-class reading program for at-risk children. The program uses arts-based activities that are physical, kinesthetic and imaginative to address key reading skills. Benchmarks includes the extra dosage component, which provides well-trained extra dosage instructors in first grade classrooms to provide additional small group instruction, at the same time the teacher is doing small group instruction in the same room. During the years ended june 30,2015 and 2014,3,400 and 2,407 kindergarden and first grade students benefited from this program, respectively
spanish is the spanish language version of benchmarks and is an adaptation designed to be used in bilingual kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms in which reading is taught in spanish. This program uses music and movement-based activities to address key reading and pre-reading skills. The spanish adaptation accounts for the particulars of the spanish language and its orthography, such as an emphasis on syllabic segmentation and an earlier push for encoding and decoding skills. During the years ended june 30,2015 and 2014, over 1,500 and 820 students in kindergarden and first grade benefited from this program, respectively.
research and development include program development expenses that are not for a specific program but would benefit a number of programs.
sales and marketing include program development expenses that are not for a specific program but would benefit a number of programs.
Mission: Reading In Motion's mission is to get every at-risk student reading at or above grade level in the first years of school through the power and discipline of the arts.
Target demographics: Low-income kindergarten and first grade students in Chicago
Direct beneficiaries per year: 3,776
Geographic areas served: Chicago, IL
Programs: Benchmarks is a world-class reading program for at-risk children. The program uses arts-based activities that are physical, kinesthetic and imaginative to address key reading skills. Benchmarks includes the extra dosage component, which provides well-trained extra dosage instructors in first grade classrooms to provide additional small group instruction, at the same time the teacher is doing small group instruction in the same room. During the years ended june 30,2015 and 2014,3,400 and 2,407 kindergarden and first grade students benefited from this program, respectively
spanish is the spanish language version of benchmarks and is an adaptation designed to be used in bilingual kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms in which reading is taught in spanish. This program uses music and movement-based activities to address key reading and pre-reading skills. The spanish adaptation accounts for the particulars of the spanish language and its orthography, such as an emphasis on syllabic segmentation and an earlier push for encoding and decoding skills. During the years ended june 30,2015 and 2014, over 1,500 and 820 students in kindergarden and first grade benefited from this program, respectively.
research and development include program development expenses that are not for a specific program but would benefit a number of programs.
sales and marketing include program development expenses that are not for a specific program but would benefit a number of programs.
info@readinginmotion.org
65 E. Wacker Pl Ste 1800, Chicago, IL 60601
312-357-9463
Arts & Culture
Chicago
