Support for Striving Readers of ALL ages!
Hope Literacy is a collaborative effort that brings together schools, organizations, educators, and families to help adolescents and adults become confident readers.

Grounded in the Science of Reading, Hope Literacy works alongside school teams and community partners. We provide high-quality literacy support through targeted interventions, research-based instructional practices, and engaging learning opportunities. This helps learners grow their skills and confidence.

Programs may take place during the school day, after school, or during the summer. This creates multiple pathways for students to receive meaningful literacy support. Through individualized instruction, high-interest texts, and structured skill development, learners strengthen decoding, fluency, comprehension, writing, and critical thinking.

Hope Literacy is built on the belief that improving literacy outcomes requires a shared effort. By partnering with schools and community organizations, the program expands access to effective instruction and creates supportive settings where striving readers can practice, grow, and succeed.

Our goal is to accelerate reading growth and help learners rediscover reading as a powerful tool for learning, expression, and opportunity.

Summer 2026 Program

Classes start July 13

Hope Literacy is offering a FREE program at HOPE Center for the Arts for 6th-grade and beyond students who are below grade level in reading.

The program will run July 13, 2026 to August 7, 2026, 8:30AM to 12:30PM.

Students will receive free breakfast and lunch.

This program focuses on supporting students who are behind grade level in reading and English Language Arts.

If you are interested in registering your student for this program, please complete the form linked below. Someone from our team will reach out directly to discuss registration further.
SUMMER 2024

Students who participated in the IR program gained 8 points more in ELA on their NWEA MAP

* compared to students who didn't participate in summer programs

13%

increased ½
grades

29%

increased 1-2
grades

25%

increased 2+
grades

70%

increased more than half a grade!

"One student in my class did almost no work throughout the school year, and he is now regularly participating. This is huge! He has answers to questions and is getting them correct ... I am not going to give up on these students. They deserve everything that kids have in the next town over."​

Teacher, IR Program

​"I didn’t like to read before I came here. I never used to read. But thanks to the teachers and coaches, I love reading now. I grabbed three books that I didn’t understand at first, but I was able to finish a book. I love the books."

Student, 7th Grade

"Reading and writing have gotten easier since I started. I can read faster now. At the beginning of class sometimes they do a timer for a period of reading to see how fast you can read. It used to take me a while, but the time keeps getting shorter."

Student, 7th Grade
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