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Despite school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Reading Assist made significant strides toward our three-year strategic plan goals to extend our reach throughout the state and serve more children during the 2019-20 school year.

Reading Assist is proud to receive national recognition for its accredited AmeriCorps program. In a highly competitive year, our program is one of only two programs in Delaware that qualified for direct federal AmeriCorps funding. The Corporation for National and Community Service found strong evidence that our intervention model is yielding positive results for our

Opinion Delaware Online: Reading Assist Executive Director Caroline O’Neal explains why early reading intervention is the key to developing successful readers.

Learn about what Reading Assist is up to this Fall. 

Delaware Online -- Reading Assist Intervention Corps members spend 45 minutes a day, five days a week with students like Bowers teaching the “mechanics of reading" to children who struggle to connect letters and their related sounds, impairing their ability to "decode” words and read fluently. 

The News Journal -- Jayden Bowers is a third-grader at New Castle Elementary School. He has to sound out a lot of words before he can recognize them. He's making progress every day with the help of one-on-one tutors from Reading Assist, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching the foundations of reading to struggling students. 

Delaware Business Now -- “The WSFS Foundation is honored to support RAI; together we will innovate, drive change and build dreams to strengthen the communities we serve." - Vernita Dorsey, Vice President and Director of Community Strategy 

NBC10 -- Reading Assist Institute, in Delaware, is a winner of the 21st Century Solutions challenge, which is a program which gives grant money to non-profits making a difference in the community. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors reports.

Reading Assist Institute will receive $25,000 from NBC10/WCAU and Telemundo62/WWSI, in partnership with the NBCUniversal Foundation, as one of the three winners of the “21st Century Solutions” grant challenge in the Philadelphia area. The grant will support the work of the RAI Reading Corps, a pilot program for reading intervention in partnership with AmeriCorps and the Colonial