February is Read Aloud Month at the library, and all month long we’re also highlighting the audio collections we have. Several bestselling novels, nonfiction and biographies by your favorite authors
Literacy Now Needs Volunteers for Houston Reads Day 2021
Sign up now to read to a child on March 2. You ll be glad you did.
By
Gwendolyn Knapp
12/30/2020 at 6:00am
Reading (intervention)Â is fun for all.Â
Want to give back in the new year? The first-ever Houston Reads Day, hosted by nonprofit Literacy Now, will bring together 400 volunteers to read to 10,000 kindergartenâthird graders on March 2, all in an effort to raise awareness for our city s growing literacy crisis, and you, yes you, can volunteer to read remotely at the virtual event.Â
About our literacy crisis: In Houston, 41 percent of young children aren t ready for kindergarten, and 63 percent of third graders don t read at grade level. Worse still, the recent Gulf Coast Coronavirus (COVID-19) Community Impact Survey found that nine in 10 Houston families with children under 18 reported negative impacts on education and schooling from the pandemic. So, yeah, Covid has probab