Effective Literacy Website #6

Mary Jean Sumbang

ED638-Fall Intersession 2018

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #6

The Family Reading Partnership (http://www.familyreading.org/great-ideas/favorite-websites/websites-promoting-literacy/) is a broad-based, locally grown coalition of individuals, businesses, schools, libraries and other organizations. They all have joined forces to “create a culture of literacy” by promoting family reading practices throughout the community. The Family Reading Partnership know that literacy, the ability to read, write and communicate clearly will define a child’s future success in school and in life. They also know that literacy development, the process that brings children to reading, begins in the first years of life at home. The reading partnership believes that long before children enter school, early experiences with books build a strong foundation for learning. By working together, the reading partnership strive to incorporate family reading awareness, encouragement and books into networks and services that already touch the lives of families.

The Programs and Initiatives of the Family Reading Partnership provide books and encouragement for families to make reading aloud to their children a part of everyday life. Family Reading Partnership gives books to families and encouragement and support for families to read to their young children. The website has a line of literacy tools designed especially to help families and children fall in love with books and reading! The Family Literacy Engagement Tools are designed to reach families in many ways through words, pictures, sounds, movement, activities, and with other suggested additional resources. 

Whether the Family Reading Partnership Program is for your own family, a friend, or families whom you serve, the books, calendars, or cards are a joyful way for any family to share literacy together. The resources in this website are colorful, interactive, and full of fun for young children and the grown-ups in their lives!