Children's Reading Alliance

Reading Solutions – June 2018

How are the children doing? The morning starts joyfully with twenty-five volunteers sipping coffee and eating snacks in a cheery room. Each one has been serving as a Reading Buddy to a second grader in one of six different elementary schools. These people are not teachers or tutors; instead they see themselves as friends with…

The Children’s Reading Alliance (formerly under the name The Children’s Reading Foundation of Doña Ana County) focuses on advancing children’s literacy in Doña Ana County. Because it has been proven that reading daily with children and having books in the home leads to success in school, we promote the message “Read with a child every day” and support programs designed to place books in the hands of families. Please visit the program page for more information.