ABQ Reads

REQUEST FOR DONATIONS: Help our ABQ Reads students keep reading this summer and thank our amazing tutors!

Our Albuquerque Reads kindergarten and first-grade students are celebrating the end of the school year. Here’s how you can help them celebrate their reading accomplishments AND help us all say thank you to all our amazing volunteer tutors! In just a few weeks, at end-of-year celebrations at each of the program’s participating elementary schools, each […]

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ONE FISH, TWO FISH … Albuquerque Reads celebrates impact of Dr. Seuss by giving away a trio of books to 200 students

It’s nearly springtime, and ABQ Reads will continue to provide at least two books a month to kindergarten and first-grade students in its program classrooms through April. On March 4, ABQ Reads tutors were able to share the world of Dr. Seuss with its three elementary schools — Atrisco, Bel-Air and Whittier — during the

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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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