Richland One Students, Families To Receive Calendars Promoting Literacy

About 2,000 students in child development, kindergarten, first and second grades in Richland School District One will carry home a Parent-Child Literacy Calendar this month. In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, the Office of Title I printed colorful calendars to promote literacy every day for children ages birth to seven years. It provides helpful tips on how families can read together, write together, talk together and explore together.

In order to assist schools in meeting Adequate Yearly Progress each year and have all students score Proficient by 2014 as mandated by "No Child Left Behind," Richland One’s Office of Title I focused major resources in child development to leave no child behind. Therefore, Title I extended the day for child development in all Title I and non-Title I identified schools and serves seven elementary and one middle school as school-wide projects.

Young children learn through interactions and caring relationships with teachers and family. They readily learn key understandings about literacy through daily demonstrations of others engaged in literate activity. This includes traditional storybook reading, as well as forms of literacy like environmental print, media, and technology - They learn best when others view them as competent and capable, and when what they already know is acknowledged and celebrated.
- From the NCTE Committee on Early Childhood Issues

If interested, these calendars can be downloaded for free at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/eceducator/calendar.pdf

For more information, call Julie Stensland (803) 231-6822 or e-mail jstensland@richlandone.org.