Family Reading Partnership

The Family Reading Partnership is a non-profit community organization that promotes early literacy. We are a broad-based, locally grown coalition of individuals, businesses, schools, libraries and other organizations. We have joined forces to “create a culture of literacy” by promoting family reading practices throughout our community.
We know that literacy — the ability to read, write [...]

Reading Aloud to Children: How? And Why?

Has anyone ever stopped to ask, “Why are those early childhood teachers always gathering the children in a group to read?” In most early childhood classrooms at any given time of day an observer will notice a group of children quietly listening as the classroom teacher reads a book aloud. This is common practice in [...]