Community Members
- Volunteer
- Donate gently used children’s books
- Have a Free Little Library in front of your home
- Attend events at your local library
- Give books as gifts (baby showers, birthdays, holidays etc.)
- Talk to children about what they are reading and your favorite books from childhood
Business Leaders
- Allow employees to volunteer in classrooms during work hours
- Organize a volunteer corps to work together to volunteer in classrooms
- Host book drives for gently used children’s books
- Post literacy tips and messages around the office (link?)
- Host lunch and learn sessions about literacy
- Allow parents flexibility to attend school conferences and activities during the school day
- Encourage parents to enroll their children in summer programs
- Encourage book clubs among employees
- Sponsor scholarships for employee’s children to attend summer programs
- Adopt a school or classroom to provide resources
Community Organizations
Parents
- Attend school conferences every semester
- Read books with your children every day
- Read to them
- Have them read to you
- If they are older, read the same books and talk about what you do and don’t like
- Enroll children in summer programs (link?)
- Talk to your children about your favorite books
- Take your child to the library and sign up for cards together
- Attend and/or volunteer at school literacy events
- Put something about attendance
- Donate books to your child’s classroom or school library
