Houston Reads Day 2025

Join us for Houston Reads Day 2025 - 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
• 39 Houston area schools participating
• 685 Classrooms 
• 15,000+ Pre-K-5th grade students read to

Save the Date for the  5th Annual Houston Reads Day:  February 28, 2025 

 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 26,000 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 four years, Houston Reads Day has:

• Raised $2.9M to sustain and grow our Reading Intervention program. 
• More than 1,700 volunteers read to more than 35,000 Pre-K-3rd grade students.