Houston Reads Day 2024

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