Our Programs

CLN is proud to offer a continuum of services to students in under-resourced schools and communities from PreK through 5th Grade. These programs provide students with skills and resources they need to develop essential early literacy skills in safe, supportive, and fun learning environments.

  • Two young girls with braided hair and colorful beaded accessories are sitting at a table in a classroom, each holding a piece of paper with their names spelled out in colorful pipe cleaners.

    Read with Kids

    In partnership with Washtenaw Promise, this program uses a structured framework to develop literacy skills and joyful, foundational associations with books/reading for Kindergarten & 1st grade students.

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  • Children playing tabletop literacy games in a library with adult volunteers supervising.

    FLIP Nights

    Family Literacy Interactive Program is a hands-on, out-of-school program that brings caregivers and their children (PreK-5) together to learn in meaningful ways. FLIP honors caregivers as their children’s first teachers and equips families with practical tools they can immediately use, and the confidence they need, to support reading at home.

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  • A group of children and a woman seated around a table in a classroom or community center, with clothing racks filled with colorful jackets and a chalkboard in the background.

    BookPALS

    BookPALS is an interactive, literacy mentoring program that pairs trained community volunteers with 2nd & 3rd graders for weekly or bi-weekly small-group reading support.

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  • A group of children and a woman participating in a virtual meeting, with some children holding up a book titled "Strictly No Elephants" and smiling.

    Virtual BookPALS

    A complement to our in-school BookPALS program, Virtual BookPALS provides 2nd & 3rd graders with small group literacy engagement, led after-school and in the summer by CLN staff and trained/vetted volunteer reading mentors.

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  • Group of children in costumes sitting on bleachers in a school gymnasium, some holding papers and talking, a bulletin board labeled 'Refocus Area' and rainbow posters on the wall.

    Reading Stars, Readers Theater

    This program offers an entertaining, engaging means of improving students’ reading fluency and comprehension. It is designed to motivate reluctant readers through the creative outlet of theatre for students in 2nd-5th grade.

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