FORT WAYNE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

Within the Boston schools, ReadBoston breaks into four separate yet cohesive programs — the Family Literacy Project, Reading Is Fundamental, the After-School Project, and the Families And Books program.

Family Literacy Project:

• Encourages family involvement in children’s literacy;

• Sets up home lending libraries and provide the books in Boston schools elementary classrooms to take books home to read with their families; • Promotes twice yearly parent-teacher conferences with an emphasis on literacy; and.

• Provides teacher training and support to help each of the Boston schools incorporate the program into their existing curriculum.

There are currently 21 elementary level Boston schools participating in the ReadBoston program. They hope to eventually expand to every elementary school in the city.

• Reading Is Fundamental (RIF):
• • Provides three free books each year to participating students to create a home library of their own; and.
• • Develops fun activities to encourage reading as a worthy pastime for the children.

Each year ReadBoston gives three books to over 15,000 students within the Boston schools through the RIF program.

• The After-School Project integrates literacy into the Boston schools’ after-school programs. Literacy specialists promote literacy instruction by providing literacy training, advice and books to increase literacy instruction and reading within the after-school arena.
• Families And Books reach children during the off-school summer months, using two Storymobiles that visit 40 neighborhood sites each week during July and August. Each Storymobile provide fun storytellings for children, who also can take books to read at home. The two Storymobiles together carry over 10,000 books that may be checked out by the children.