Making reading fun for kids

Reading Seed uses volunteers, like these being trained, to help children who are reading below grade level in grades K-5. Reading coaches are trained to emphasize fun.

 Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star 2013
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona: Literacy Connects has received funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona to bring the Reading Seed program to kindergarteners through fifth-graders at three Title I elementary schools in the Sunnyside Unified School District this coming school year — Mission Manor, Los Niños and Summit View.

Literacy Connects recruits and trains volunteer Reading Seed coaches from the community to help children who are reading below grade level in grades K-5. Reading Seed also offers a leveled lending library of books that match students’ interests with their reading abilities and distributes free books to children to encourage-independent reading.

  • Old Pueblo Rotary Club of Tucson: From July 2016 to June 2017, the club awarded a combined $19,631 in grants to Cragin Elementary in TUSD, the Flowing Wells School District, Tucson Fire Department Camp Fury, Flowing Wells/University of Arizona Sky Camp, the Fran Coffey/Sid Tarin Scholarship, the Primavera Foundation Service Project, YMCA of Southern Arizona, the TUSD Elementary School Dictionary Project, and other nonprofits.

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