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Home Who we are What we do Resources Contact us Get Involved International Read to me Day Home Who we are What we do Resources Contact us Get Involved March 19INTERNATIONALREAD TO ME! DAYGet Involved “It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a child to inspire a village” — Emma Mactaggart, The Child Writes FundAbout us‘Every dayis 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!WATCH OUR VIDEO AND BE INSPIRED"> OBJECTIVEOur Goal International Read to Me! Day aims to: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! View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize WHY PARTICIPATE?THE BENEFITS Does reading make a difference? “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.” — Professor Guyonne Kalb, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, Australia “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.” — Professor Emeritus, Stephen Krashen University of Southern California, United States of America View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Back to Top Child Writes Fund Watch Featured Videos Find an Organisation Terms of Use | Privacy Policy © 2022. All Rights Reserved by Boogie Books.