Invite administrators plus PTO and school volunteers. Packets contain materials that emphasize literacy experiences. Children are paid for each book that they have prepared for the reading sessions. Money is paid at the end of the project. This program can positively impact children in many ways.
Volunteers serve as role models and provide personal attention to the children.
If held in a public library, school library, or a resource room with books, children can be guided to books that are high-interest and at an appropriate level. Children are highly motivated by being able to accumulate money. Community members and volunteers become pen pals to children. They commit to write a certain number of letters to a child or family. They enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope and paper for the children to write back.