 Challenge:Only 50% of children in low income areas are read aloud to on a daily basis, compared to 70% of higher income children. Solution:The First Teachers Program workshops engage and educate parents, childcare providers and teachers on the critical importance of reading aloud to children. Through highly interactive instruction and dialogue, participants develop individualized solutions to overcome the challenges of daily read-aloud routines.
The goals of our First Teachers Workshop are to:
The workshops are facilitated by Bring Me A Book’s highly qualified and enthusiastic trainers who conduct workshops in Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and English. Our curriculum is interactive and highly visual and uses “modeling the message” techniques that empower and provide parents the means to become their child’s “first teachers.” We collaborate with community partners to provide lingual training for parents and community members, communicating the importance of reading aloud and emphasizing the benefits achieved when parent and child read together on a daily basis. You can help:Your donation can fund a First Teachers Workshop. You can also volunteer as a trainer in our program. “The best SAT preparation course in the world is to read to your children in bed when they’re little. Eventually, if that’s a wonderful experience for them, they’ll start to read themselves.” —Tom Parker, Dean of Admissions, Amherst College Tips for Reading Aloud:“The last thirty years of reading research confirms this simple formula – regardless of sex, race, nationality, or socioeconomic background. Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who don’t read much cannot get better at it.” |
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