Raising A Reader Question & Answer Session
Thursday, 1/16/20, 9 AM - 11 AM
In September 2019, the Family Resource Network became a Raising A Reader (RAR) Affiliate member. RAR came on site and provided implementer and coordinator trainings to FRN members. Now, they are back to support our group with an open Q & A session. The session is open for all implementers and coordinators as well as new staff just learning about RAR.
Please come ready with specific questions, examples, or areas you'd like our RAR trainer, Kristen Anderson to cover.
See below for more information about the RAR program:
Raising A Reader (RAR) is a national nonprofit organization that helps children and families successfully build, practice and sustain literacy routines vital to academic success, with special attention to children at highest risk for educational failure. RAR’s mission is to engage caregivers in a routine of book sharing with their children from birth through age eight to foster healthy brain development, healthy relationships, a love of reading, and the literacy skills critical for school success.
RAR rotates bright red bags filled with award-winning books into children’s homes on a weekly basis, exposing children to over 100 books per rotation cycle. RAR pairs this book rotation with parent training and information on how to effectively share books to promote children’s early literacy skills and love of learning. Families are also connected with their local public and school libraries through special ‘graduation’ ceremonies and literacy events. At this time, children receive their own blue library book bag so they can continue the practice of borrowing books and build a lifelong habit of reading. RAR is an evidence-based, scalable and affordable model through which schools can engage families in home-based literacy practices.
Founded in 1999 as one of the nation’s earliest venture philanthropy enterprises, RAR occupies a unique space in the nonprofit literacy world by filling a gap in family engagement programming for children ages 0-8. Today, RAR reaches more than 130,000 children and families each year throughout the US, 80% of whom are living at or below the poverty level and more than 50% of which are English Language Learners. Since its inception 15 years ago, RAR has reached over 1.75 million children and families throughout the country.
Please come ready with specific questions, examples, or areas you'd like our RAR trainer, Kristen Anderson to cover.
See below for more information about the RAR program:
Raising A Reader (RAR) is a national nonprofit organization that helps children and families successfully build, practice and sustain literacy routines vital to academic success, with special attention to children at highest risk for educational failure. RAR’s mission is to engage caregivers in a routine of book sharing with their children from birth through age eight to foster healthy brain development, healthy relationships, a love of reading, and the literacy skills critical for school success.
RAR rotates bright red bags filled with award-winning books into children’s homes on a weekly basis, exposing children to over 100 books per rotation cycle. RAR pairs this book rotation with parent training and information on how to effectively share books to promote children’s early literacy skills and love of learning. Families are also connected with their local public and school libraries through special ‘graduation’ ceremonies and literacy events. At this time, children receive their own blue library book bag so they can continue the practice of borrowing books and build a lifelong habit of reading. RAR is an evidence-based, scalable and affordable model through which schools can engage families in home-based literacy practices.
Founded in 1999 as one of the nation’s earliest venture philanthropy enterprises, RAR occupies a unique space in the nonprofit literacy world by filling a gap in family engagement programming for children ages 0-8. Today, RAR reaches more than 130,000 children and families each year throughout the US, 80% of whom are living at or below the poverty level and more than 50% of which are English Language Learners. Since its inception 15 years ago, RAR has reached over 1.75 million children and families throughout the country.