Beyond Basics

Program Overview

Beyond Basics collaborates with school communities to improve literacy through a suite of comprehensive educational programs that include one-on-one and small group tutoring, literacy-enrichment, and community partnership programs.

Read to Rise Tutoring provides one-on-one, intensive, on-site tutoring services. In these settings, students benefit from working with a professionally trained and certified tutor on a regular schedule. In order to create inspiring environments that provoke curiosity and compel interest in reading and life, the Read to Rise Tutoring program is paired with supplemental visual and literary arts programming critical to learner outcomes. Additional literacy and literacy-related programs complete the full Beyond Basics

Literacy Learning Suite:

• Reading Buddies: Reading and book exposure in small group and one-on-one settings with a mentor

• Publishing Center: Students work with a mentor to write original stories and publish books

• Art with the Masters: Students are exposed to higher order concepts that contribute to comprehension

• International Art & Writing Program: Connects students with peers across the globe and allows students to further practice concepts, vocabulary, and comprehension

• Expanding Horizons: Community partnership and mentoring programs pair students with organizations and leaders

Our objectives and methods are designed to connect children to the importance of reading and to create an environment of encouragement, instruction, and reinforcement, demonstrating value and pride in reading.

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