“It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a child to inspire a village”
‘Every day is International Read to Me Day!’ is an audacious campaign working to build a community where volunteers from around the globe read every ten minutes, 24 hours a day, supporting families by sharing the love of reading!
OBJECTIVE
Our Goal
Change the dynamic and empower children to ask for more support, not just from their birth family but also from their community. Marking a day when kids can ask to be read to is a key part of this strategy.
Promote, encourage and inspire reading activities within communities.
Showcase organisations who are passionate about improving the literacy standards of the children around them.
Address the disparity between resources and where they are distributed, by supporting a book drive and sending the collected books to locations around the world to those who are looking for books!
Support the invaluable work of all organisations trying to positively increase the literacy rates of children in their countries.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
THE BENEFITS
“No matter what else we tested for the results show that being read to remains an important factor that is not explained away by other factors such as the parents’ education. Children of 4 – 5 years old who are read to 3-4 times a week have reading ages 6 months ahead of children read to once or twice a week. Reading to children nearly every day almost doubles their progress to one year ahead of the group.”
“Children’s knowledge of phonics rules is not related to how well they do on tests of real reading, tests in which they have to understand what they read. To do well on reading tests, children need to do a lot of pleasure reading.”
