Super Stars Literacy provides intensive literacy instruction combined with social/behavioral skill development five times weekly, for two to three hours each day after school. The Super Stars Literacy model draws on the cultural and economic assets of the surrounding communities and is adaptable to a variety of school settings and collaborative approaches.
The program provides:

• Whole group and small group literacy activities (including Read Alouds, Guided Reading, Phonics, and Phonemic Awareness instruction as well as literacy through music, art or science instruction)
• Literacy Extension Activities (independent learning centers based on reading, math, science, and art themes/skills)
• One-on-one Instruction on specific skills appropriate to the needs of each child
• Family Events (family field trips to local museums and science centers and parent education events)
• Coordination with school-day instruction and additional school-day support: In addition to communicating regularly with our students' school-day teachers, our Group Leaders each spend ten hours per week in the students' classrooms, providing support with individual and group reading activities

Using Read Alouds, Super Stars Literacy Group Leaders model social behaviors and encourage students to understand social-emotional problems and develop empathy. Our curricula (including Kidzlit, Second Step, and Tribes) explore themes of pro-social behavior, impulse control and anger management. Children are encouraged to express their feelings and grapple with their fears and concerns through discussion, drama, art, movement and writing.

Super Stars Literacy currently provides early literacy and social/emotional development programming at the following East San Francisco Bay Area school sites:

• Brookfield Elementary (Oakland)
• Harder Elementary (Hayward)
• International Community School (Oakland)
• Longwood Elementary (Hayward)
• Park Elementary (Hayward)
• Reach Academy (Oakland)
• Stege Elementary (Richmond)
• Think College Now (Oakland)
• Turner Elementary (Antioch)
• Washington Elementary (Richmond)

If you are interested in bringing our award-winning early literacy program to your school, please contact us.

Hayward Promise Neighborhood: Starting in the fall of 2012, SSL will provide its programming at Harder and Park elementary schools in Hayward as part of the new Promise Neighborhood federal grant project. One of only five such grantees nationwide, the Hayward Promise Neighborhood project (led by California State University, East Bay) is designed to dramatically improve educational opportunities for children and youth living in the economically disadvantaged Jackson Triangle neighborhood of South Hayward, by providing cradle-to-career services that improve the educational achievement and healthy development of children. The project is modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone, which was created to give that New York City neighborhood's children the social and educational boost they need to rise out of poverty.

Oakland Literacy Coalition: Super Stars Literacy continue to be a lead partner in the Oakland Literacy Coalition (OLC), a collaborative of literacy service providers brought together by Brian Rogers, Executive Director of the Rogers Family Foundation. The OLC's goal is to bring comprehensive, coordinated literacy development from pre-school to 3rd grade to under-resourced East Oakland elementary/pre-school sites. At our Brookfield and Reach sites, SSL provides our program as part of the OLC's "Literacy Zone" collaborative model, working in concert with school staff, volunteers, and other literacy service providers to ensure that all students achieve 3rd grade reading proficiency.

Oakland Reads 2020: SSL is a participant in another OLC collaborative, Oakland Reads 2020, a citywide campaign aimed at dramatically increasing the number of Oakland children who are reading successfully by the year 2020. Oakland Reads 2020 is a chapter of the National Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, which aims to significantly improve 3rd grade reading proficiency.