Books For Kids supports the national program –
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Our Efforts To Support This Program Include:

• Volunteers – Books For Kids now has over 170 people working on the Weekly Kindergarten program and/or the Monthly Program
• Mentoring
• Book Distribution

Books For Kids has given over 150,000 books to young children and continues to distribute over 4000 books a month.

Our community volunteers are professionally trained to go
into schools, read to the children and engage students in a
book discussion which fosters:

• reading & listening comprehension skills
• critical thinking skills
• character development
• career education
• a love of reading & love of books

Following the reading, the students are given gift, a gift that
we all take for granted, a gift that is in our homes but not
necessarily in their homes and that is a gift of a book. This
book is brought home so that the children could begin to
build their own home libraries.

Language Development
Reading aloud exposes children to a rich variety of words and language patterns

Cognitive Development
It encourages the children to think creatively, make connections and understand cause and effect

Academic Success
Children who are read to at an early age often perform better in school

Encouraging A Love For Reading
Children are more likely to develop a life long love for books and reading

Kindergarten

One mentor helping one child weekly.  We provide the books, materials and weekly lesson plans. Each child takes home a book after the session is over.

• Three Schools
• Ten Classes
• 200 Children
• 95 Mentors

Monthly

• Ten Schools
• 147 Classes

We Strive To Transfer The Love of Reading From Our Volunteers To Every Child And Show Them That We Care!