The program has a home component that involves children in reading and writing with their parents. And Read offers students regular opportunities for silent reading, often from the books and materials that are in the collections kept by each classroom. The program involves parents and incorporates the use of technology and assessment. Each classroom has its own mailbox, and second graders are trained as mail carriers. I parents to discuss strategies used to help children learn to read and write.
Parents also receive a book to use at home with their children.
Mrs. Yates project in which all students have read to the principal by the end of the year.