Helping Families Read Together
About Ready, Set, Read!
Ready, Set, Read! encourages parents in underserved 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.
Ready, Set, Read! provides classroom lending libraries and instructional bilingual workshops to help underserved parents read to their kids. Focusing on pre-kindergarten children, our programs stress the importance of a parent’s role in a child’s literacy development, ongoing academic success, and overall self-confidence.
Since 2000, through the donations and hard work of generous donors, volunteers and motivated educators, we have taught over 20,000 parents to read with their children more often and effectively, given each of those parents a book to take home and read to their child, and distributed over 150 classroom lending libraries.
Techniques
The Ready, Set, Read! workshop is the culmination of years of research and hands-on experience. Parents are taught the dialogic method for reading to their children. Dialogic reading is based upon three main techniques–asking “what” questions, asking open-ended questions, and expanding upon what the child says.
READY - Parents become ready to be an active partner in their child’s development.
SET - Parents implement the dialogic reading techniques they have learned.
READ - Parents learn that the time they spend with their chidlren looking at books and discussing them is invaluable, regardless of their reading skills.