Webinar: Sing Out and READ Progress during COVID

Sing Out and READ Community Partners including the Pinellas County Urban League, St. Pete Housing Authority, and Suncoast Youth have drafted letters of support for our organization.

FLiP helps at-risk students gain a full year of reading proficiency in just 3 months.

The pandemic has set back learning for all students, but especially for students of color. Evidence-based acceleration approaches can help.

Reporter Trevor Pettiford examines how Sing Out and READ's home-based program tablets are helping at-risk kids rapidly build reading proficiency.

Sing Out and READ’s method of boosting the reading levels of at-risk kids is substantially more cost-effective than the accepted norm.

In this interview Ann C. Kay, co-founder and Educational Coordinator of the Rock ‘n’ Read Project, gives us an engaging and informative look at the topic of the impact of music on reading fluency and prosody.

In a major shift, the controversial figure in the fight over how to teach reading now says that beginning readers should focus on sounding out words.

Sing Out and READ is very excited to announce that the Tampa Bay Recruiter Networking Group (RNG) has joined forces with our Family Literacy Project (FLiP) to help at-risk kids become proficient readers.

This summer The Learning Alliance sponsored its first implementation of Sing Out and READ’s Family Literacy Project (FLiP) at Pelican Island Elementary, Vero Beach, FL. To measure the rising 3rd graders’ gains, The Learning Alliance along with its teachers employed two separate assessment tools. The results are now in, and they are indeed remarkable.

The Sing Out and READ team is extremely proud of the progress made by its Family Literacy Project (FLiP) participants over the course of the last few months.

FLiP parent Vanessa Alouidor and her kids share their experience with Sing Out and READ.

This Fall, our at-risk communities are faced with a tripled burden of learning disparities.

Social distancing means more at-home time, and more opportunity to make reading gains with a Sing Out and READ tablet.

Sing Out and READ’s implementation at The Jeff & Penny Vinik Family Club at Winston Park marked the first time we were able to provide our own trained full-time facilitator on site at a Boys & Girls Club.

To convey the full story of nonprofit Sing Out and READ, Carlo’s wife and co-founder Beth Franzblau, developed a 4-minute video storyline with SPARK Media producer Amy Mariani Wright.

The Lakewood Junior Spartans football and cheer organization serves about 400 boys and girls each year in Pinellas County, FL. The club seeks to provide fun athletic learning opportunities while emphasizing the importance of academic success.

The abrupt switch to remote learning wiped out academic gains for many students in America, and widened racial and economic gaps. Catching up in the fall won’t be easy.

This spring, America took an involuntary crash course in remote learning. With the school year now winding down, the grade from students, teachers, parents and administrators is already in: It was a failure.

For Claudia Margaroli, teaching reading during the coronavirus school shutdowns has looked nothing like what she used to do in the classroom.