North Dakota Reading Corps, a strategic initiative of South East Education Cooperative, demonstrates how national service and literacy science can accelerate improvement in both students and systems. By mobilizing the people power of AmeriCorps, Reading Corps provides evidence-based literacy interventions and data-based assessments to children from age three to grade three. Our goal is to help every child become a successful reader by the end of 3rd grade.

KINDERGARTEN - 3RD GRADE

• A total of 732 students kindergarten through 3rd grade were served at 44 sites.

• 47 K-3 tutors served with ND Reading Corps.

• On average, K-3 students received approximately 69 minutes of tutoring per week and 17 weeks of tutoring before qualifying to exit the program.

• Weekly progress monitoring scores for participating students demonstrated that 75% of students had a weekly growth rate exceeding the target growth, which means these students were closing their individual achievement gap and catching up to their grade level targets.

• 75% of all students tutored were catching up to their grade level targets, with Kindergarten and grade 3 having the highest percentage of students above target growth.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• 89% of tutors responding to an end-of-year survey would recommend serving as a member of Reading Corps.

• Nearly all respondents agreed that participation in Reading Corps had a positive impact on students and increased students' confidence in reading.

• 95% of tutors reported that Reading Corps had a positive impact on them.

• After their service, 30% of tutors are considering a career in education.

Click here to view the full 2021-2022 Evaluation of North Dakota Reading Corps

PRE-KINDERGARTEN

• A total of 482 PreK students were served at 15 sites.

• 28 tutors served in the PreK program.

• On average, PreK students received approximately 16 weeks of tutoring with an average of 28 minutes per week.

• 79% of students met the end-of-year target on the PELI Composite, an overall representation of a student’s early literacy and language skills.

• 92% of students met the end-of-year target on the Early Math Inventory, an overall representation of a student's early numeracy skills.

• Tutors use measures of early literacy and numeracy to evaluate their students’ Kindergarten readiness. These measures correspond to important early literacy skills including early phonemic awareness, early phonics skills, and early vocabulary or language skills, as well as early numeracy skills inlcuding subitizing, object counting, making comparisons, and decomposing and composing numbers.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• Nearly all tutors responding to an end-of-year survey would recommend serving as a member of Early Learning Corps.

• 92% of tutors said their service increased their knowledge and skills related to education.

• 100% of tutors indicated their service in Early Learning Corps had a positive impact on students and increased students' confidence in reading and/or math. 

• 100% of tutors reported that Early Learning Corps had a positive impact on them.

• After their service, 93% of tutors are considering a career in education.

Click here to view the full 2021-2022 Evaluation of North Dakota Early Learning Corps