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**Sources: United Way of Lake County, Americaâs Edge, Rand Corporation and the National Institute for Early Education Research.
Literacy is at the root of a personâs ability to succeed, and the family is at the heart.
You’ll go far when you read!
“Did you know that in some Lake County schools, 76% of kindergartners have little or no knowledge of books?”
“It’s really simple. You don’t have to have flash cards or lesson plans to help your child thrive - just enjoy your child and make an effort to talk more.”
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
“As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.”
“Staying in school and receiving a quality education are the best deterrents to juvenile delinquency and the surest route towards responsible, productive adulthood.”
The interactions that young children have with such literacy materials as books, paper, and crayons, and with the adults in their lives are the building blocks for language, reading and writing development.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
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