Youth Opportunity: Read and Achieve
United is the Way to youth opportunity when children learn to READ & ACHIEVE
Creating brighter futures for the next generation by helping children reach their full potential by starting school ready for kindergarten and reading at grade level by 3rd grade. The goal, breaking the cycle of generational poverty by putting our children on the path to life-long success early.
WHAT IS READ AND ACHIEVE?
Helping strengthen literacy outcomes by providing families with opportunities to grow as learners from newborn until becoming independent readers.
Why is reading on grade level by 3rd grade so important?
Experts tell us a child’s ability to read at grade level by third grade is the single greatest predictor of future success because this is when they transition from learning to read to reading to learn. When a child falls behind in reading, they risk falling further behind in every subject. By helping children to reach this goal, we are helping to put them on the path to lifelong success.
Life-Changing Strategies at work:
- Dolly Parton Imagination Library, providing books each month to nearly 2,000 children ages birth to five.
- Book Nooks and Literacy Kits giving families books, supplies and how-to’s to having quality interactive learning and fun
- Talking is Teaching encourages parents and caregivers to TALK, READ, and SING to help encourage brain development and vocabulary growth.
- Road to Reading is a literacy initiative that brings books and learning resources directly to families in the community from a fully stocked Ivy Tech RV.
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Have fun supporting early childhood literacy efforts volunteering with Read & Achieve.