![]() ![]() Like all students in the Belle Haven program, Kasha spends 90 minutes a week after classes at the clean and neat reading center with a volunteer. What changed Kasha’s world was Reading Partners, a South Bay nonprofit dedicated to improving the literacy levels of low-income students by matching them with volunteer tutors.ĭuring this school year, Reading Partners will reach 850 students at 16 schools throughout the Bay Area with more than 1,000 active volunteers (from high school students to retirees) staffing reading centers that emphasize comprehension, fluency, expression and the sheer joy of reading. I can keep on reading and still understand the words.” ![]() ![]() Kasha says when she was in the second grade, “all I could read was kindergarten stuff.” But then, she adds with the biggest of smiles, “I got a lot better. ![]() She’s halfway through Marty Crisp’s “White Star: A Dog on the Titanic” and is about to start the Roald Dahl classic “Matilda.” Kasha Merritt, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Menlo Park’s Belle Haven Elementary School, loves to read. ![]()
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