Delray Reads Day
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Delray Beach business and community members, educators and parents joined students in the city's elementary school classrooms to read together.
Delray Reads Day is a community-wide event designed to bring attention to Delray Beach’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading by bringing community leaders and residents into area schools to learn more about how they can help schools and students in the future. The grade-level reading campaign addresses three educational concerns: kindergarten readiness, school attendance, and summer learning.
Delray Reads Day began at 8 a.m. with a breakfast hosted by Toussaint L'Ouverture High School for Arts & Social Justice at the Delray Full Service Center, featuring keynote speaker Byron Garrett chairman of the National Family Engagement Alliance and former CEO of the National PTA, and the world-famous storyologists from Page Turner Adventures. After the breakfast, readers proceeded to their assigned schools and spent 30 minutes or so in a classroom, reading to and talking with students.
Delray Reads Day is a community-wide event designed to bring attention to Delray Beach’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading by bringing community leaders and residents into area schools to learn more about how they can help schools and students in the future. The grade-level reading campaign addresses three educational concerns: kindergarten readiness, school attendance, and summer learning.
Delray Reads Day began at 8 a.m. with a breakfast hosted by Toussaint L'Ouverture High School for Arts & Social Justice at the Delray Full Service Center, featuring keynote speaker Byron Garrett chairman of the National Family Engagement Alliance and former CEO of the National PTA, and the world-famous storyologists from Page Turner Adventures. After the breakfast, readers proceeded to their assigned schools and spent 30 minutes or so in a classroom, reading to and talking with students.
Thank you!
Delray Reads Day 2013 is a wrap, and it was a fantastic day! Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to read, to the elementary schools who allowed us to come into their schools, to the city officials who supported our efforts, and most of all, to the spirit of community that Delray Beach is all about!
Enjoy the Delray Reads Day 2013 photo album below, and on our Facebook page.
Delray Reads Day 2013 is a wrap, and it was a fantastic day! Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to read, to the elementary schools who allowed us to come into their schools, to the city officials who supported our efforts, and most of all, to the spirit of community that Delray Beach is all about!
Enjoy the Delray Reads Day 2013 photo album below, and on our Facebook page.
Donate!
One of the ways the Delray Beach Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is addressing the issue of summer learning is by providing books to kindergarten students. Children who have books at home and who read during the summer do better in school. It's as simple as that.
We reached our initial goal of raising $1,720 by November 13 to provide 86 kindergarten children at a Title I school* with 5 brand new books to start their own home library and to help prevent summer learning slide, and we're happy to report that with the generous support of the Delray Beach community, we've reached our second goal: To raise enough money to provide books to a second school!
With a total of more than $4,000 raised so far, we will be able to provide summer reading packets to every kindergarten student at Orchard View and Pine Grove Elementary schools.
For many of these children, the books they receive as a result of the city’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading may be the first books they can call their own. We are able to purchase five age-appropriate books for each child for $25 through a special arrangement with the Scholastic publishing company.
We reached our initial goal of raising $1,720 by November 13 to provide 86 kindergarten children at a Title I school* with 5 brand new books to start their own home library and to help prevent summer learning slide, and we're happy to report that with the generous support of the Delray Beach community, we've reached our second goal: To raise enough money to provide books to a second school!
With a total of more than $4,000 raised so far, we will be able to provide summer reading packets to every kindergarten student at Orchard View and Pine Grove Elementary schools.
For many of these children, the books they receive as a result of the city’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading may be the first books they can call their own. We are able to purchase five age-appropriate books for each child for $25 through a special arrangement with the Scholastic publishing company.
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If you'd like to help, it's not too late to donate. Here's how: Send a check for $25 (or whatever amount you'd like to contribute) made out to the City of Delray Beach with "Delray Reads" listed on the memo line of the check to: Janet Meeks, Education Coordinator Delray Beach City Hall 100 NW 1st Ave Delray Beach, FL 33444 * Title I schools have a high percentage of students who are eligible for federally-funded free and reduced price lunch. |
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