Causes: Education, Literacy, Remedial Reading & Encouragement
Mission: SitStayRead’s mission is to advance children’s literacy skills using an engaging curriculum, dedicated volunteers and certified dogs. Founded in 2003, SitStayRead brings teams of trained volunteers and Certified Reading Assistance Dogs into many Chicago Public Schools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. SitStayRead serves Kindergarten - third-grade students with an innovative and engaging curriculum that uses the human-animal bond to make reading and writing fun, safe and confidence-building. SitStayRead is the leading literacy organization in the United States to use dogs as a tool to improve reading in grades one through four. Dogs enable SitStayRead to tackle the serious issue of childhood illiteracy in a fun way, and test scores prove that our programs improve reading fluency.
Results: From its founding in 2003 with just three volunteers, SitStayRead has grown to more than 150 volunteers and 70 Certified Reading Assistance Dogs, and serves more than 2,000 Kindergarten-3rd grade low-income students annually.
Target demographics: struggling readers and writers increase their literacy skills and deepen their love of reading and writing!
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 2,000 students in K-3
Geographic areas served: Chicago
Programs: SitStayRead, at no cost, to low-income schools all over Chicago.
Mission: SitStayRead’s mission is to advance children’s literacy skills using an engaging curriculum, dedicated volunteers and certified dogs. Founded in 2003, SitStayRead brings teams of trained volunteers and Certified Reading Assistance Dogs into many Chicago Public Schools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. SitStayRead serves Kindergarten - third-grade students with an innovative and engaging curriculum that uses the human-animal bond to make reading and writing fun, safe and confidence-building. SitStayRead is the leading literacy organization in the United States to use dogs as a tool to improve reading in grades one through four. Dogs enable SitStayRead to tackle the serious issue of childhood illiteracy in a fun way, and test scores prove that our programs improve reading fluency.
Results: From its founding in 2003 with just three volunteers, SitStayRead has grown to more than 150 volunteers and 70 Certified Reading Assistance Dogs, and serves more than 2,000 Kindergarten-3rd grade low-income students annually.
Target demographics: struggling readers and writers increase their literacy skills and deepen their love of reading and writing!
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 2,000 students in K-3
Geographic areas served: Chicago
Programs: SitStayRead, at no cost, to low-income schools all over Chicago.
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