The statistics are alarming…
Hope partners with ARISE 2 Read and Shelby County Schools each school year to provide the Team Read program to 2nd grade students in an effort to improve literacy rates in Memphis. ARISE 2 Read trains volunteers to tutor students using the proven Team Read method. This approach teaches foundational words and provides the personalized reading support students need to read at grade level by 3rd grade.
Hope has made ARISE 2 Read a top priority because the statistics are alarming. 39% of the children in Memphis live in poverty and are, on average, three grade levels behind their more affluent peers in reading. 66% of the students not reading on grade level by the 4th grade will likely end up in jail or on welfare. However, research shows that children living in poverty who are reading on grade level by 3rd grade have an 89% graduation rate!