Superintendent Millard House, Mayor Sylvester Turner, Houston Texans players, and Houston Texans cheerleaders will join more than 400 volunteers across Houston for Literacy Now’s Houston Reads Day, a day dedicated to reading to 14,000 Pre-K-3rd grade students at 31 schools in Houston ISD and Aldine ISD.

Literacy Now is a local nonprofit dedicated to transforming communities by empowering children and families through literacy, leadership, and life skills. Houston Reads Day will support Literacy Now’s expansion and bring awareness to the literacy crisis in our city.

Forty-one percent of Houston-area children are not ready for kindergarten, and 73 percent of third graders are not reading at grade level. The ability to read proficiently by the end of third grade is a significant predictor of high school graduation and other adverse outcomes, including serious behavior problems, joblessness, crime, and homelessness.

Mayor Sylvester Turner, Superintendent Millard House II, Literacy Now executive director Jacque Daughtry, Bruce Elementary School Principal Shawn Nickerson, Houston Texans players, Houston Texans cheerleaders, Houston Reads Day volunteers

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Bruce Elementary School

510 Jensen Dr, 77020