North Dakota Reading Corps
North Dakota Reading Corps, a strategic initiative of South East Education Cooperative, demonstrates how national service and literacy science can accelerate improvement in both students and systems. By mobilizing the people power of AmeriCorps, Reading Corps provides evidence-based literacy interventions and data-based assessments to children from age three to grade three. Our goal is to help every child become a successful reader by the end of 3rd grade.
Reading Corps members work in small groups or one-on-one with Kindergarten through 3rd-grade students that fall below the proficient reading target for their grade level. Members meet with each of their students for 20 minutes each day, five days a week in a pull-out format during the school day. Members use research-based scripted practices (referred to as literacy interventions) to practice reading and teach strategies to become better readers.
2023 - 2024 Evaluation
Overview
A total of 597 students (K-3) were served at 33 schools by 35 tutors.
On average, students received approximately 71 minutes of tutoring/week across 19 weeks.
Weekly progress monitoring scores on these assessments for participating students demonstrated that 74% of students had a weekly growth rate exceeding the target growth, which means these students were closing their individual achievement gap and catching up to their grade level targets.
100% of tutor respondents to an end-of-year survey from the evaluation team indicated Reading Corps had a positive impact on them personally.
Click here to view the full 2023-2024 Evaluation of North Dakota Reading Corps