ABQ Reads

LITERACY JOURNEY CONTINUES: ABQ Reads continues to make strides with students, seeks volunteers

Heading into spring, ABQ Reads continues to provide at least two books a month to students in the program. The Chamber and Albuquerque Public Schools team up for the literacy program, which serves kindergarten and first-grade students at Bel-Air, Atrisco and Whittier elementaries. APS site coordinators have been hard at work creating engaging lessons and […]

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GAINING RECOGITION: Albuquerque Reads spotlighted in New Mexico Educational Retirement Board newsletter

Albuquerque Reads continues to get noticed. To end 2024, the Chamber’s literacy program was featured in the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board’s newsletter, called ERB Connect. Albuquerque Public Schools site coordinators have been hard at work creating engaging lessons and a comfortable community environment for our students and tutors to excel in while building reading

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TURN THE PAGE: ABQ Reads continues to increase literacy, seeks tutors to grow program

ABQ Reads is in full swing coming into the new year. Albuquerque Public Schools site coordinators have been hard at work creating engaging lessons and a comfortable community environment for our students and tutors to excel in while building reading skills. For the fall semester, to help build home libraries, ABQ Reads donated eight books

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READERS BECOME LEADERS: ABQ Reads seeks tutors for school year

Tutors are needed at Atrisco and especially at Whittier elementary schools! Whittier kindergarten is from 9:05-10:30 a.m., and first grade from 10:35 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Tutors are welcome to do one or both sessions. Newcomer training at the sites is about 2 hours. The new tutor comes in to shadow a veteran tutor and then stays

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READERS BECOME LEADERS: Albuquerque Reads looking for volunteer tutors

Albuquerque Reads, a program of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, relies on its many volunteer tutors to help some of our youngest students gain the life-changing skills of reading and writing. ABQ Reads is again looking for new volunteers to join the ranks of this dedicated group. Tutors volunteer in any of three of

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LET’S TALK LITERACY: ABQ Reads chair Michelle Donaldson in the news to talk about Chamber/APS program

  Albuquerque Reads, a program of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Albuquerque Public Schools, relies on its many volunteer tutors to help some of our youngest students gain the life-changing skills of reading and writing. Michelle Donaldson, ABQ Reads chairwoman, GACC Board member and KOB-TV general manager, appeared on KKOB News Radio

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