Bring Light: Léeme (Read to Me) Early Literacy Program

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Léeme (Read to Me) Early Literacy Program

Grail Family Services

An early literacy program for parents and their pre-school children to develop reading skills for the children and parenting skills for the adults.

Number of Donations: 16 | Posted about 1 year ago

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Grail Family Services

Grail Family Services (GFS) fosters learning and the empowerment of vulnerable families with young children through the delivery of programs that educate, develop leadership skills, and build a sense of community.

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Charity Info

Based in: San Jose, California

Year founded: 1995

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Project Info

Léeme (Read to Me) is an early literacy program for parents and their pre-school children. Léeme strengthens the bond between parents and children, helps parents to develop skills to read with their children, and prepares children for school by laying the foundation for children to become good readers.

Using a curriculum developed by GFS and published by Scholastic, Léeme focuses specifically on the development of four crucial early literacy skills: oral language skills, listening skills, and knowledge of concepts of print. The program is evaluated using a pre- and post-evaluation tool administered to the parents and a separate pre- and post-evaluation tool administered to the children.

The goals of the program are to:

* Increase children's interest in reading at an early age
* Strengthen children's early literacy skills
* Increase parents' participation as partners in their children's early literacy education
* Strengthen the bond between parents and children

Results:

* 75% of parents participating in the program increased the amount of time they spend reading with their children each week
* 75% of participating children increased their knowledge of print concepts by 25% by the end of the six week program

Comments

Teddi wrote:

This is such a great program - without literacy skills, children will always be at a disadvantage.

Posted 12 months ago

Ken wrote:

Thanks, Teddi.

You're absolutely right. Studies have shown that first graders who were not on grade level by then end of the year had only a one in ten chance of ever achieving grade level proficiency, and that children who are not fluent readers and writers by the end of third grade may never catch up with their peers.

Our programs at GFS focus on early literacy, and early skills acquisition, in order to close that gap, and give these kids a chance.

Thanks for your support!

Posted 11 months ago