Dear Education Supporter:
The President's America Reads Challenge is clear.
"Every child in America shall be able to read independently by the end ofthe third grade."
You're on the front lines of the America Reads Challenge. Whether you�re a college work-study program administrator, an elementary school principal, or just a concerned citizen, Literacy Volunteers of America is on the front lines with you, working to solve America�s reading problems.
The President issued the challenge. Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) provides the answer: Help a Child Learn to Read. This book – used with LVA�s Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50-50 Management – provides you with all the elements you need to create a complete, affordable, tutoring program for children.
Help a Child Learn to Read, developed through a grant from the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education at the George Washington University, is the latest publication in LVA�s long line of quality tutor-training manuals. Like LVA�s TUTOR, its counterpart for adult literacy tutors, Help a Child Learn to Read is designed simply. Using the book as a guide, any motivated adult can make a difference in the life of a child who needs help improving his or her reading skills.
Author Judy Cheatham, Ph.D., director of Greensboro College�s Writing Across the Curriculum Program, supervisor of its Tutoring Program for using college students in schools and a veteran of more than two decades of educating America�s reading instructors, has written Help a Child Learn to Read in plain English.
What will having a logical, jargon-free instruction manual mean to you? Simply put, it will enable your organization to help a child become a better reader.
At Literacy Volunteers of America, we have helped improve the literacy skills of hundreds of thousands of adults and their families over the past 36 years. We believe the America Reads Challenge can be achieved, and that Help a Child Learn to Read is the ideal tool with which to achieve it.
Sincerely,
Marsha L. Tait,
President
