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PARENTS AS READING PARTNERS
Dream Big: Read.
Parents As Reading Partners is a collaborative effort among parents, staff, and community to build a reading partnership between the home and the school.
Learning to read is the single most important activity in a child’s education. Studies show that children who read at home are better prepared to succeed in formal education. The Parents As Reading Partners program is aimed at involving parents in the essential task of helping their children become lifelong readers.
The primary objective of the program is to encourage reading at home. Children turn to their parents as role models and are more likely to follow the example of a reading parent. Reading at home further provides a supplement to the excellent reading programs currently used in our nation’s schools. PARP asks parents to encourage their children to read, impressing upon them the fact that reading can be fun as well as informative.
PARP programs encourage parents to read with their children for at least fifteen minutes per day.
Plattekill PTA is starting our PARP program on Monday February 6, 2012 thru February 24, 2012. Attached is the contract and reading chart, which must be filled out, signed and returned to the student’s teacher by February 27, 2012. EVERYONE WHO SUBMITS A READING LOG WILL RECEIVE A PRIZE!
If you have any questions contact Jennifer Lamping, PARP Chairperson, at (845) 883-0210.
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