WORLD DATA ON EDUCATION

Once children reach the elementary level within the Boston schools, ReadBoston is there to welcome them and assist the Boston schools to foster literacy home-school connections.

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.