Our latest round of Raising A Reader sessions start this week and we can’t wait to welcome new families! Five days a week, Make Way for Books staff go out to elementary schools throughout Tucson to providing one hour of fun, engaging early literacy programming for families. Each
week, children and families participate in activities and storytimes developed to help children develop specific pre-reading skills they need to arrive to kindergarten “ready to read.”
The program increases children’s access to books over the course of six weeks. A 20-year study found that having books at home has a greater impact on children’s future academic achievement than their parents education level or job. Through Raising A Reader, children and families receive a bag filled with 5 books to take home and share and return the following week for a new set of books to share.
One parent shared,”Our family has participated for about 6 months, and in this 6 months we have read over 50 new books and we were also gifted with five books to keep. We are so impressed with the level of attention and activiesthat make way for books provides us. Can’t wait to keep participating.”
Find Raising A Reader near you!