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Read To Grow Children's Book Club
Read to Grow Children's Book Club helps children enter kindergarten with the necessary pre-literacy skills and brain development. Read to Grow Children's Book Club provides one free book a month to children, from birth to age five, who are living at or 150% below the poverty level. Parents are encouraged to read regularly to their children. Regular reading to children promotes proper brain development during the prime time for learning literacy skills, the first five years of life. Children from low-income families have been exposed to 30 million fewer words, by the time they are three, than their more affluent counterparts. * Children who are birth to two years old do not have iPhones or Tablets yet; thus, they are a captive audience. Let us keep them captivated!
We have operated Read to Grow for over 27 years in the community We use a variety of books sources (not just one publisher) We provide free books to children who are in poverty or 150% below the poverty threshold We use local teachers and librarians to help pick out our books We were the first in the community to see the need for this program and implement it
FUNDERS:
We are thankful for our wonderful grantees and donors who help make this program grow! Literacy is as essential as food:
- Kosciusko County Community Foundation
- Dekko Foundation
- Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust
- Community Donors
- Warsaw Altrusa
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PARTNERS:
Not a complete list:- Department of Child Services- Presby Preschool- Syracuse Early Learning Center- Milford Early Learning Center- Warsaw Academy- Heartline- North Webster Early Learning Center- Early Headstart- HeadStart Warsaw- HeadStart Claypool- Headstart Leesburg- HeadStart Lincoln- HeadStart Madison- HeadStart Mentone- Beaman Home- CCS- Enchanted Hills Community Partnership/Bowen Center- Healthy Families- Live Well Kosciusko - Ivy Tech College- North Webster Elementary Backpack Program- Teen Parents Succeeding- Salvation Army
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