Free books mailed to your child each month from birth to their 5th Birthday
1000 Books by Kindergarten
Program to support reading 1000 books with your child before kindergarten
Literacy Classes
Parent and community literacy classes offering tips and tricks to teach literacy
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states, and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship. The Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school graduation—grade-level reading by the end of third grade.
Research shows that proficiency in reading by the end of third grade enables students to shift from learning to read to reading to learn and also master the more complex subject matter they encounter in the fourth-grade curriculum. Most students who fail to reach this critical milestone falter in the later grades and often drop out before earning a high school diploma. Yet two-thirds of U.S. fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to national reading assessment data. This disturbing statistic is made even worse by the fact that more than four out of every five low-income students miss this critical milestone.
Although schools must be accountable for helping all children achieve, providing effective teaching for all children in every classroom, the Campaign is based on the belief that schools cannot succeed alone. Engaged communities mobilized to remove barriers, expand opportunities, and assist parents in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities to serve as full partners in the success of their children are needed to assure student success. Please follow the link for a copy of our Community Solutions Action Plan for Winchester’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
The Winchester Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Coalition:
Anita Jenkins
Community Foundation of Northern Shenandoah Valley
Girls on the Run Shenandoah Valley
Handley Regional Library System
Healthy Families of the Northern Shenandoah Valley
John & Janice Wyatt Foundation
Laurel Ridge Community College
Literacy Volunteers Winchester Area
Pediatric Associates of Winchester
Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum
The Kids Club of Northern Shenandoah Valley
Top of Virginia Regional Chamber
United Way of the Northern Shenandoah Valley
Winchester Education Foundation
Winchester Department of Social Services
If you or your organization would like to get involved with the Campaign, please reach out to Allie Mondell at amondell@lvwa.org for more information.