Let's Author a Different Future for Delaware's Kids

Right now, too many children in Delaware are falling behind in reading; not because they can’t learn, but because they lose ground over the summer.

Only about 37% of Delaware third graders read on grade level, and the rates are even lower for children from low-income households and many Black and Latino students. Each summer, students in high-need communities can lose two to three months of reading progress, compounding year after year until the gap becomes hard to close.

But this is a story we can change.

Through Get Delaware Reading Summer, United Way of Delaware and more than 25 community partners provide children with:

• High-dosage reading tutoring

• Structured literacy instruction

• Access to books and supportive mentors

This proven approach helps children return to school confident, prepared, and ready to succeed; setting them on a path toward graduation and a livable career.

Your gift today helps turn summer learning loss into summer learning gains.

📖 $50 helps put books into a child’s hands

📖 $150 supports targeted literacy instruction

📖$500 helps fund high-dosage tutoring for students who need it most

📖$2,500 helps a child go to high quality, reading centric summer camp for 8 weeks.

This season of giving, help us author a different future, one where every child has the chance to read, learn, and thrive.

Give today. Change a child’s story.