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| Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
Families Make the Difference is a Reading Is Fundamental® family reading program through the Beyond the Bell Branch that serves over 17,000 children and families in LAUSD. Families Make the Difference helps parents develop their skills and self-assurance to support their children's reading and learning and help their children learn to love books. Program Goals: Improve family reading habits and enhance the time that families spend sharing books with their young children. • Promote parents’ self-confidence as participants in their children’s education. • Foster supportive relationships among parents who face similar challenges. • Assist Families Make the Difference program coordinators to be effective facilitators for the parents they serve. Over the course of the program, parents learn about children's books and participate in skill-building workshops on such topics as how to read aloud to and with children. Parents then apply these newly acquired skills to the planning and execution of a Reading Is Fundamental program. Working together, with guidance from a staff advisor, parents learn to select and order children's books for use in the program, recruit other parents, and plan/participate in reading motivation activities for the children served by the program. Families Make the Difference programs include the following components: 1. Training: A train the trainer workshop teaches the program advisor and parent advisor how to run a Reading Is Fundamental program at their site. Skill building sessions include using best read-aloud and motivational techniques, how to increase parent involvement, and trends in children’s books. 2. Books: The after-school staff, school staff advisor. and parents choose books for distribution to participating children during at least three Book Events scheduled throughout the school year. 3. Book Events and Reading Motivation Activities: Three times during the Families Make the Difference program, the after-school agency and Youth Services site staff plan and run free Book Events, at which children choose a book to take home as their very own. During these events, children and their families get involved in having fun with activities that motivate them to read together and to love books. 4. Workshops: As the staff and parent advisor, you conduct up to seven Families Make the Difference program workshops for parents using Reading Is Fundamental’s award winning “Read With Me” videos plus instructions and reproducible handouts provided in the Advisor’s Workshop Manual. The workshops teach parents how to choose and share books with their children, and encourage them to make reading a daily family activity. 5. Reading Challenge: The Families Make the Difference program includes a Twice Upon a Time Reading Challenge to increase the amount of time children spend with books. Over a two-week period, the after-school staff and community volunteers agree to read aloud daily to and with children after school. Parents agree to match that by reading aloud at home each evening. By the end of the two weeks, children will have been read to at least 20 times! Advisors are encouraged to set higher and higher reading goals, doubling (or more!) the amount of time children are read to by making reading an everyday activity both after school and at home. |
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