| Ready, Set, Read! encourages parents in socio-economically disadvantaged communities to read to their pre-kindergarten children. We donate classroom lending libraries and teach parents how to share books with their children at home. By involving parents in their children’s literacy development, we pave the way for future reading and educational success. We are a free resource for preschool teachers to encourage home reading. Ready, Set, Read! makes home reading a fun and easy experience for families of preschoolers by bringing books and training directly to their children’s classrooms. Who we serve
Our efforts are focused on teachers in Southern California, with emphasis on the School Readiness Language Development Program found in elementary schools serving economically disadvantaged communities throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District As its name implies, SRLDP prepares children for kindergarten. In addition, it helps prepare the parents for the demands that school will place on them and their children. Ready, Set, Read! provides the missing component to this critical educational experience: a varied, multilingual and age appropriate collection of books available for reading outside of class. What we do
We collect new and gently used English and Spanish language preschool books from a variety of donor sources. We assemble them into libraries of fifty books and provide them to selected preschool teachers, along with a one-hour read-aloud workshop for parents. Our workshop includes a gift of books and library information for each parent who attends. Parents and teachers are surveyed to track the library’s impact on home reading. Since our inception, Ready, Set, Read! has distributed over 7,500 books to 150 preschool teachers and conducted workshops attended by more than 12,300 parents.
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