Parent Partnership

We understand and value the parent/caretaker as a child’s first and most important teacher. Therefore, Literacy Now addresses the whole child and focuses on parent engagement as a vital tool to turn the tide of illiteracy and generational poverty. By building skills and interactions between parent and child, we are providing resources to families that foster children’s literacy development at home.

PARENT engagement WORKSHOPS:

Workshops are offered through our Reading Intervention program where parents connect with one another while participating in fun, free, hands-on activities that can also be used at home. Parents also learn how their child can get the most benefit from the books they receive twice a year.

Book Distribution:

On target to distribute more than 20,000 free books this year, we get age-appropriate and culturally diverse books into the hands of children who need them most! Books are given away through our Reading Intervention program, Lunch Bunch mentoring program,  Group Storytimes, and to our youngest readers (2 months to 4 years old) through our mobile classroom, The Reading Express. These books will build or sometimes even start a child’s home library and will be a critical component in encouraging students (and their parents) to continue practicing the skills learned at home. Additionally, students in all programs also receive a backpack with a reading buddy (stuffed animal), school supplies, and activities or workbooks to help beat the Summer Slide.