Red Lake Elementary Unites Home and School through Family Reading Program
[Red Lake, MN] – Over 600 Red Lake Elementary students will bring home a copy book to be revealed, on Thursday, February 1, at our evening family event and begin reading it with their families on Monday, February 5. The upper grades have been participating for several years, and we are excited to have our Kindergarten through Grade 2 students joining us for an experience for our all K-5 students at Red Lake Elementary!
During the month of February, students and families will read the book together at home while celebrating and exploring the novel at school. It’s all part of a unique, national family literacy program called One School, One Book from non-profit Read to Them designed to strengthen the educational connection between home and school.
Red Lake Elementary will join the schools and districts across North America who have undertaken this family literacy strategy. Families will read and discuss the story at home. In school, students will answer trivia questions, and engage in creative extension activities. Families will be encouraged to submit pictures of the family reading together at home to be posted on our social media sites. We will also have guest reader videos posted so families have the choice to read aloud together or follow along with the guest reader video.
One School One Book is the flagship program of Read to Them, a national non-profit based in Richmond, Virginia. The organization’s mission is to create a culture of literacy in every community. “The secret sauce of family literacy is to create a symbiosis between home and school.
Read to Them’s family literacy programs have reached over 2 million families in over 3,000 schools in all 50 states (and 6 Canadian provinces). A continually growing body of research demonstrates that children who are read to at home are better prepared to read, succeed in school, and graduate. www.readtothem.org