Announcing: Pre-K Implementation Grants
- The Indy Learning Team
- Aug 26
- 2 min read
We're Expanding to 50 Pre-K Classrooms This Fall
We're so excited about these results that we're expanding — and thanks to a generous funder, we're able to offer implementation grants that cover much of the cost for the first 50 pre-K classrooms that join us this fall.
Interested in Bringing This to Your Classrooms?
We'd love to walk your team through a live demo of the daily instructional routine and the tracking that supports it — and talk through whether your pre-K program is a fit for one of our implementation grants.
Reading success doesn't start in kindergarten. It starts here.
What is TILT Adira Reads Pre-K? A Program Built for the Pre-K Classroom
TILT Adira Reads for Pre-K is designed to fit inside a pre-K day, not compete with it. In 10 minutes or less a day — broken into short, teacher-led moments woven into circle time, morning meeting, or storytime — students practice exactly the skills that predict kindergarten reading readiness:
Knowing letter names
Knowing letter sounds
Writing letters the right way
Hearing and playing with sounds in words
There's no separate curriculum to bolt on and no extra prep.
The goal isn't just exposure. It's mastery — so that instead of arriving at kindergarten already behind, kids arrive ready to excel and become lifelong readers.
It's Already Working
At East 10th Street UMC Preschool, a year of short, consistent Adira Reads practice moved four-year-olds from recognizing letters to actually reading words. In the program's top classroom, letter sound proficiency jumped from 9.4% to 88.4%, with peak gains of +83.7 points in letter form and letter name recognition. Seven of ten students in that classroom reached mastery by May.
As the preschool's director described it:
"This wasn't a new initiative bolted onto an already-full plate — just small tweaks to what we're already doing that produced outsized results."
Teachers there now watch former students head into kindergarten already finding and sharing words on their own in the classroom library. Read the full East 10th Street story here.
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