Reading Quest provides free, science of reading based, structured literacy tutoring and social emotional support for hundreds of students who are reading one or more years below grade level. Our program is incredibly engaging and fun, bringing the joy of reading to children in need.
Our Reading Quest team currently tutor 460 students a week, all of whom are referred by their teachers, in collaboration with Santa Fe, Taos, Bernalillo and West Las Vegas Public Schools, Native American Student Services, Turquoise Trail Charter School, Communities in Schools and Adelante program for homeless youth.
We have Reading Quest classrooms in several Title 1 schools on the south side of Santa Fe and also in Cochiti, Santo Domingo and Ohkay Owingeh pueblo schools, two public schools in Taos (Ranchos and Enos Garcia Elementary Schools) and Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in West Las Vegas.
We provide ESL classes for recent refugee families from Mexico, Afghanistan and South and Central America. We also provide workshops on teaching reading for local schools, volunteer tutors, teachers, and parents. We also offer a full summer's worth of programming, including a six week summer 'Reading is Magic' camp.
We hire and train Reading Specialists using structured literacy, science of reading based curricula and integrate multi-sensory hands-on, phonics-based strategies for our Reading Quest Tutoring Center, school based outreach, and Reading is Magic summer programs.
Our History
Our non-profit is an outgrowth of the student - led literacy campaign, Hooked on Books, and the NM Alliance for Literacy created by Santa Fe middle school students and their teaching principal, Rayna Dineen at Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences and local high school students in 2012.
Hooked on Books students helped create the ‘Reading is Magic’ Summer Program which trains and hires teens, college students and master reading specialists for intensive summer reading programs for students who are 1-2 years below grade level in reading. During the past thirteen summers, our campers have made, on average, slightly more than one year's growth during each two-week camp session, as measured by a standardized reading assessment.
Our Reading Quest team currently tutor 460 students a week, all of whom are referred by their teachers, in collaboration with Santa Fe, Taos, Bernalillo and West Las Vegas Public Schools, Native American Student Services, Turquoise Trail Charter School, Communities in Schools and Adelante program for homeless youth.
We have Reading Quest classrooms in several Title 1 schools on the south side of Santa Fe and also in Cochiti, Santo Domingo and Ohkay Owingeh pueblo schools, two public schools in Taos (Ranchos and Enos Garcia Elementary Schools) and Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in West Las Vegas.
We provide ESL classes for recent refugee families from Mexico, Afghanistan and South and Central America. We also provide workshops on teaching reading for local schools, volunteer tutors, teachers, and parents. We also offer a full summer's worth of programming, including a six week summer 'Reading is Magic' camp.
We hire and train Reading Specialists using structured literacy, science of reading based curricula and integrate multi-sensory hands-on, phonics-based strategies for our Reading Quest Tutoring Center, school based outreach, and Reading is Magic summer programs.
Our History
Our non-profit is an outgrowth of the student - led literacy campaign, Hooked on Books, and the NM Alliance for Literacy created by Santa Fe middle school students and their teaching principal, Rayna Dineen at Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences and local high school students in 2012.
Hooked on Books students helped create the ‘Reading is Magic’ Summer Program which trains and hires teens, college students and master reading specialists for intensive summer reading programs for students who are 1-2 years below grade level in reading. During the past thirteen summers, our campers have made, on average, slightly more than one year's growth during each two-week camp session, as measured by a standardized reading assessment.
We would like to thank our partner Meow Wolf for this beautiful video of our work. The RQ team
CONTACT INFO
Executive Director: Rayna Dineen
Phone: 505-920-9709
Email: [email protected]
Mailing Address (for mailing only):
Reading Quest PMB # 652
369 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501-2626
501(c)3 #47-3350742
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