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WAY FOR BOOKS MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS provides childcare centers and preschools with lending libraries of hard-cover books. Childcare center personnel are expected to attend training sessions to learn how to read aloud to children most effectively and how to use books to their fullest benefit in the classroom. In addition, 24 centers have storytime volunteers who share their love of reading by reading aloud to children once a week. To date, we have placed libraries in over 110 preschools and childcare centers. Funding has recently been obtained from First Things First to implement the READ (Read Early and Daily) Program in Quality First! sites in Central and South Pima.
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Sites: MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS partners with childcare centers that enroll a majority of children with families eligible for Department of Economic Security (DES) assistance. Many of these sites feed into elementary schools where children score significantly below average on standardized tests. MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS is making a difference in the lives of young children and their parents, by exposing them to the pleasures of reading before they enter school. We believe a child who has never been read to, has never held a book or turned the pages, is unprepared for school. We look forward to partnering with students, educators and partner agencies to document the benefit of the Preschool Program as these children progress through school.
Quality First! First Things First First Things First (FTF), approved by Arizona voters, works to ensure that our youngest children have access to quality early childhood experiences so they will start school healthy and ready to succeed. Across the state, FTF regional partnership councils -in collaboration with local leaders- identify the educational and health needs of children from birth through age 5 in their communities and fund strategies to address those needs. MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS is participating in the Quality First! program by providing lending libraries and language and literacy development education to child care centers and home providers.
MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS Preschool/READ Program is made possible through the significant support of...
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