Every child literate for life
Acting as an engine for equality by teaching well, providing quality learning experiences, engaging each child’s whole environment, and advocating for change.
At ReadAble, we believe that every child deserves the opportunity to thrive in life, and that literacy is key to unlocking their full potential.
Founded in January 2014, our organisation was born out of a shared passion to address inequities in the educational system, provide quality literacy programmes to children in need, and ultimately help to break poverty cycles.
ReadAble runs language and numeracy classes every Saturday in community spaces around Jalan Kukoh. Our students range from 4 to 16 years old and our teacher-student ratios are kept deliberately low.
Our methods are expert-led, evidence-based, and driven by the belief that while early intervention is key, it is never too late to start.
ReadAble has built a community library of over a thousand books for our kids to freely access at every reading level throughout the week.
ReadAble connects our students to the wider community by organising excursions to plays and museums, facilitating external enrichment activities, and setting up our families with community resources such as school supply donations and external workshops.
We stand for the rights of children as articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Children are complete, capable individuals. We respect children, their families, and our teammates, including their personal autonomy, values, emotional needs and boundaries.
Every person can find and use their voice to build a better future. It is the adults’ role to listen to children’s voices and attend to their wellbeing. Education should be age-appropriate and holistic, enabling children to develop to their full potential.
Impact is collectively wrought. We care for every member of our community and treat all equally. We partner parents, caregivers, social workers and others to build trusting and caring safety networks for children.
Every child needs safety and care. We recognise the impact of our actions and actively stop and redress harm where we identify it. We stand against all economic and media exploitation of persons in poverty.
The tragic death of Megan Khung in 2020, and the loss of other children to fatal abuse in recent years, has shaken us. That’s why we’ve written to the Prime Minister’s Office to call for an independent inquiry into Megan’s death. To read the full letter, please go to https://bit.ly/rdblletter01 or click the link in our bio.
Their Dream Worlds. Our Real Work.
Our ReadAble kids have been drawing their “dream worlds”: full of friendship, fun, and feeling safe.
At ReadAble, we’re doing the real-world work of making life feel a little more like that dream: by teaching, partnering families, and building confidence in every child we meet. ✨Until 30 April, every dollar donated will be doubled by the Tote Board. That means twice the training and time we can invest in the kids.
Give now and double your impact. Every donation received through giving.sg (https://bit.ly/rdblcorp - link in bio or swipe to the end for QR code) is matched from now until 30 April.
📚Happy World Book Day! ✨
Fun fact, we get to celebrate Book Day not once but TWICE; today (as it is in the UK) and again with the rest of the world on 23 April!
We love any chance to fuel children’s imaginations and excitement for reading - we’ll be heading to @esplanadesingapore to see The Lost Lending Library by Punchdrunk Enrichment this weekend!
Celebrate with us by supporting ReadAble in our belief that literacy is key to unlocking every child’s full potential.
All donations to our current campaign will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the government & the Tote Board. Click on the link in bio!
A huge thank you to MSL @literacywithmsl for leading an amazing session on the Orton-Gillingham (OG) Approach! 🌟 This training was a game-changer for the ReadAble team, giving us the tools to teach more effectively while deepening our understanding of how languages are learned.
Some of our key takeaways:
- Auditory Processing Skills: We learned how essential it is to strengthen listening skills, especially when it comes to following instructions. It’s all about helping learners tune into the details.
- Multisensory Learning: Teaching through touch, movement, sight, and sound makes lessons stick - and keeps kids engaged!
- Age-Appropriate Learning: Tailoring lessons to match the developmental stage of each learner ensures they’re always challenged, but never overwhelmed.
As this approach was developed for dyslexic learners, it helped us to dive into the core principles of literacy - the very building blocks of communication - to strengthen our skills as educators.
Whether we’re working with neurotypical or neurodivergent kids, we’re now even more excited to make learning fun with rhyming, alliteration, blending, segmenting… and making up silly words! 😄📚
We have come full circle! Our very first student, D, has donated bags of books to us, 11 years nearly to the day ReadAble started operations.
It reminded us of how D could not read when we first met him, but after a few months of focused phonics learning he was devouring Roald Dahl books. This grasp of literacy served him excellently throughout his schooling journey. His inspiring progress reflected the impact of our work and encouraged us to keep doing what we do.
Driven and capable D has completed his secondary school journey and starts his next chapter studying cybersecurity at a polytechnic 🥳 we can’t wait to see what the future has in store for him!
📚(Story shared with permission)
This Children’s Day, we are reminded that the greatest breakthroughs happen when we push beyond self-doubt. Every child has a unique brilliance waiting to be discovered, and learning is the key to unlocking it.
When we nurture a child’s confidence, we help them realize what they can achieve: turning ‘I can’t’ into ‘I can’, with every new step on their journey.
ReadAble is committed to closing the inequality gap, one word at a time. Visit our link in bio to support our work with a donation. 🙏
Carting out for 9/9? While you spend smartly, make every dollar count and give to ReadAble! Together we can empower children in the Jalan Kukoh community with literacy confidence for life.
Visit the link in our bio, or PayNow to UEN 201626279R (include ‘I SUPPORT READABLE’ in the reference).
Join us in closing the gap, one word at a time.
ReadAble is committed to growing and journeying alongside the children and families we serve, and we can’t do it without you!
Support our work with a donation: this will help us empower the children in and around Jalan Kukoh with literacy confidence and success.
Visit the link in our bio, or swipe to the end of this post for a QR code to our fundraising page.
Join us in closing the gap, one word at a time.
A decade ago, ReadAble began as a small, informal group of volunteers teaching children in 1- and 2-room flats. We’ve since grown to become an educational charity, empowering more than a hundred children and families over the years. Today, we teach more than 80 children and parents in various community spaces at
Jalan Kukoh.
Thanks to the efforts of our children, their families, our many wonderful volunteers, generous donors, and community partners, we’re proud to have reached this milestone year.
As we celebrate this significant milestone, we look forward to nurturing continued partnerships that are meaningful for our growing community, to create long-lasting, positive transformation and a more inclusive and equitable society.
© ReadAble (Ltd) – Literacy for Life. Est. 2014. Incorporated 2016. Registered Charity 2021.
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