Empowering Students.
Supporting Educators.
Why Students and Schools Struggle
60% of Colorado’s third graders can’t read at grade level, and many educators lack the specialized training to deliver effective, sustainable literacy instruction. While we know more than ever about how children learn to read and which systems best support them, most schools lack the time, expertise, and budget to build a literacy system on their own.
How Colorado Reads Makes a Difference
Colorado Reads is a literacy nonprofit that supports students’ reading growth and provides educators with specialized training, strengthening both student outcomes and school literacy ecosystems. We use Science of Reading–based tools to provide a wide range of programs that help schools develop stronger readers, more confident teachers, and a sustainable literacy intervention system over a three to five-year period.
Why Students
and Schools Struggle
60% of Colorado’s third graders can’t read at grade level, and many educators lack the specialized training to deliver effective, sustainable literacy instruction. While we know more than ever about how children learn to read and which systems best support them, most schools lack the time, expertise, and budget to build a literacy system on their own.
How Colorado Reads
Makes a Difference
Colorado Reads is a literacy nonprofit that supports students’ reading growth and provides educators with specialized training, strengthening both student outcomes and school literacy ecosystems. We use Science of Reading–based tools to provide a wide range of programs that help schools develop stronger readers, more confident teachers, and a sustainable literacy intervention system over a three to five-year period.
Making the Case
Every year a child is behind in reading, the harder it becomes to catch up. While Colorado has set ambitious literacy goals for K-3, students continue to fall through the cracks. Schools need help creating a holistic strategy and system for implementation. Teachers want and need more training. Understanding the Science of Reading is crucial for teachers at every grade level, as is the ability to identify and address gaps in all students’ foundational skills.
Colorado Reads is poised to help close this gap with a promising new model that strengthens schoolwide literacy systems and improves reading for all students. Now, we seek support to further test and refine our model for replication in more schools.
By supporting Colorado Reads, you can help more children become confident readers—because when kids can read, they can learn anything.
Colorado Reads accelerates learning for all readers.
86% of students
expressed positive views of reading after participating in the Colorado Reads
tutor program.
100% of educators
agreed that collaborating with Colorado Reads strengthened their ability to implement strong literacy practices.
100% of educators
agreed that collaborating with Colorado Reads strengthened their ability to implement strong literacy practices.
86% of students
expressed positive views of reading after participating in the Colorado Reads tutor program.
Colorado Reads accelerates learning for all readers.
Who We Serve:
82% of students in Colorado Reads partner schools are struggling to read
92% of students in Colorado Reads partner schools qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL)
97% of students in Colorado Reads partner schools identify as students of color
57% of students in Colorado Reads partner schools are multi-language learners
Colorado Reads listened to our school’s needs. They have been the only organization that has put boots to ground to tackle the inequities our students are facing. It’s been the best external partnership we’ve ever had.
Kathy Fox
Assistant Principal
Lincoln High School
How Colorado Reads
Helps Schools:
Support
Struggling
Readers
We provide high-touch tutoring directly to grades 3-9 students who need literacy intervention, developing the skills foundational to school and life.
Use
Data
Effectively
We help schools utilize their reading data and apply it to address diverse student needs more effectively, closing the gap for the highest-need students.
Provide Educator Development
We equip educators with evidence-based literacy best practices to support every reader.
Inspire
Independent
Readers
We partner with schools and educators to build environments that foster independent reading, offering books and other resources that keep students engaged.
How Colorado Reads Helps Schools:
Support
Struggling Readers
We provide high-touch tutoring directly to grades 3-9 students who need literacy intervention, developing the skills foundational to school and life.
Use Data Effectively
We help schools utilize their reading data and apply it to address diverse student needs more effectively, closing the gap for the highest-need students.
Develop Educators
We improve educators’ development and use of scientific and research-based practices, so they’re better equipped to support all readers.
Inspire
Independent Readers
We provide high-touch tutoring directly to grades 3-9 students who need literacy intervention, developing the skills foundational to school and life.
Making the Case
Every year a child is behind in reading, the harder it becomes to catch up. While Colorado has set ambitious literacy goals for K-3, students continue to fall through the cracks. Schools need help creating a holistic strategy and system for implementation. Teachers want and need more training. Understanding the Science of Reading is crucial for teachers at every grade level, as is the ability to identify and address gaps in all students’ foundational skills.
Colorado Reads is poised to help close this gap with a promising new model that strengthens schoolwide literacy systems and improves reading for all students. Now, we seek support to further test and refine our model for replication in more schools.
By supporting Colorado Reads, you can help more children become confident readers—because when kids can read, they can learn anything.