Students who meet the Reading at Home goal for a semester earn grade-level recognition. Raising Readers Workshop Recognizing the fact that parents are the children's first teacher, as well as their most important teacher, Raising Readers promotes parental involvement in early childhood education and provides parents training so that they may help their children acquire early literacy skills. Raising Readers is designed to teach parents how to interactively read with their child. The workshops are designed for kindergarten and first grade families as a preventive strategy to help families develop the daily habit of reading together as well as discovering the joy of reading. Grade-level teachers explain and model strategies to encourage listening comprehension.
Teachers discuss how to help children at home with identified skills.
Parents and children practice the skill with each other at the workshop. Each family takes home a copy of the book that was used during the workshop.