Galleria Dallas is partnering with Catch Up & Read this August, hosting a series of read alouds and a visual display on the center’s Gallery Wall. Catch Up & Read is a Dallas-based nonprofit whose mission is to equip children from underserved communities to read on grade level by the end of third grade. During the 2024-2025 school year, the program worked directly with 21 schools, 150 teachers and over 800 students.

The Summer Storytime read alouds will take place on level 3 near the play place at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout August. Wednesdays will feature local authors and Fridays will feature literacy coaches from Catch Up & Read. Catch Up & Read literacy coaches will be reading at least one title in Spanish on the days they are scheduled.

The schedule is as follows:

• Aug. 1: Catch Up & Read literacy coaches Morgan Hines & Jonathan Cambambia
• Aug. 6: Rachel Más Davidson, The Helping Sweater
• Aug. 8: Catch Up & Read literacy coaches Daydelisse Rodríguez & Rachel Ladd
• Aug. 13: Meagan Anderson, Filled Bellies, Full Hearts
• Aug. 15: Catch Up & Read literacy coaches Angélica Rojas & Francisco Díaz
• Aug. 20: Christina Carroll, The Things I Love
• Aug. 22: Cleo Greene from NBC 5’s Texas Today
• Aug. 27: Lesa Engelthaler, Joan of Art
• Aug. 29: Jenny Anchondo from CW33’s Inside DFW Show