About Read Alex
Inspiring a Love of Reading in Children with Read Alex
Read Alex is a community educational program to assist our children with literacy and learning skills. We aim to equip children with reading resources, and an opportunity of participating in educational sessions which will support their academic growth and potential. The program's main objective is to build confident children, who have the motivation and skills to enable them to make positive and more progressive steps towards their personal goals and potential.​

OUR OBJECTIVES
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CONFIDENCE: We want to build Confident Children, who are positively enabled to reach their full potential through learning.
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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: we aim to use our local talent and skills to implement this project, create jobs and be leaders in our local community, Alex.
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CHAMPIONING: We want to create a platform for positive social impact in our community, giving hope and being positive role models.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
Our learning program is rich and diverse, we have designed our sessions to keep the children both engaged and open to teaching. Our primary goals are around literacy, comprehension and reading. While our secondary goals include developing new learning strategies, public speaking abilities and presentation skills. All of which are critical to enabling kids to feel more confident to express their ideas and potential.
THE TEAM
Currently our team are all volunteers, which have been incubated through our sister club Run Alex. We primarily have a team made of up Educators and Creative Industry Professionals – which makes for a beautiful chemistry of skills in our program. Read Alex has become an inspired space where the relationship between learning and creating takes place.
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Key Components of the Read Alex Program:
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Phonemic Awareness
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Phonics Instruction
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Vocabulary Development
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Comprehension Strategies
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Fluency Practice
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Reading Aloud
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Independent Reading
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Diverse Reading Materials
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Interactive Activities
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Assessment and Feedback
How to Participate:
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Attend the Program - We invite you to participate in our reading program where we help young children discover the joy of books and build essential reading skills.
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Donate - We are accepting book donations for our children's reading program. If you have gently used or new children's books that you would like to contribute, please consider donating them.
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When and Where:
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The Read Alex program takes place every Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 9am at the Kwabhekilanga Sports Ground in Alexandra.