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Annual General Meeting

Our AGM will be held on Thursday 20^th November 2008 at Blackwells, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ. A short celebration of the work and vision of Reading Quest will be followed by a poetry reading given by ANN PILLING to launch her prize-winning poems.Please contact This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it   if you wish to attend.

 VACANCY AT READING QUEST FOR A NEW DIRECTOR

 VACANCY FOR A TUTOR

Please have a look at our Vacancies page for details.

WHAT IS READING QUEST?

‘I used to be Special Needs, but now I’m just Special!’

Reading Quest is a home-school literacy project. It aims to increase children’s confidence, knowledge and skills in reading and writing so that they can become successful independent learners.

Reading Quest works with children who are struggling with the early stages of literacy by giving daily individual tuition in school. The lessons follow a diagnostic approach: reading and writing are taught according to daily observations of the child’s strengths and needs. Children are selected for the project by their class teachers and taught by specially trained Reading Quest tutors. Parents are encouraged to play an active role in supporting their children’s learning.

• started in 1995
• worked with more than 3,000 children in over 80 schools
• registered charity (No. 1107219)

How we work
We teach children individually on a daily basis for 6 weeks. Individual teaching means that we can respond to each child’s strengths and needs. The teaching follows a structured multi-sensory approach to the building blocks of literacy. Our teaching method demands creative thinking from tutors and children and promotes excellence and enjoyment for both. Research shows that the children make 5 times the expected progress in their reading and spelling over the 6-week course, and continue as successful learners in the long-term. Their confidence soars and they become far more motivated to read and learn.