In 1992, thirty-eight percent (38%) of America's 4th grade children FAILED to read at the basic level of reading. By 2005, thirty-eight percent of fourth graders again read below the basic reading level.
- U.S. Department of Education, 2005
The Adopt-A-Book Literacy Foundation is a non-profit organization that is working to address this problem. Focusing on elementary and middle grade level students will enable Adopt-A-Book and its partners to impact a large number of at-risk children by improving their reading and literacy skills while building confidence and a desire to advance academically.
Adopt-A-Book works closely with community reading initiatives for children and adults. that are offered by private groups, community libraries and federal reading programs. We also work with schools to identify at-risk kids and help the schools build in-classroom libraries with books that are fun to read as well as in national reading programs such as Accelerated Reader.
Books will be pre-screened for quality of content, evaluated for grade and age level, and will be gender targeted with appropriate titles. All books are new, current and come from major publishers and are "fun-to-read" titles.
The Adopt-A-Book Literacy Foundation pledges to do everything within its ability to end the great divide between students who are reading at or above their grade level and those who are not. The Foundation will seek support from the private community, business community, civic organizations, philanthropic individuals, foundations and all levels of local, state and federal governments to help in this effort. The Foundation will seek tutorial services to provide tutoring to those with the greatest need. Our mission is to make a difference!