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Partners in Literacy (PiL) is a grassroots non-profit organization whose volunteers have served students in Greater Parkhill schools since 2011. PiL’s mission is to create communities or readers in schools. Their superpower is coaching volunteers to meet their reading “buddies” where they are. Through strong relationships and carefully chosen books, they boost school cultures so…

1. In all important ways, children are the best readers. 2. Children need to be read to. 3. Children need to hold books in their hands. They need to linger over the artwork. They need to feel how many pages there are and gauge when the end is coming. 4. Children need to know that…

Jayden (2nd grade) as a reader has been a difficult to please. He has had a chance to read I Spy, Who Would Win, Where’s Waldo, sports stories, car stories and more. Nothing really quite hit the spot. Then Lisa tried pop-up books and he was intrigued. The second to last session of the year…

This Tuesday, a reading volunteer and I had a conversation about the podcast by Emily Sanford, SOLD A STORY. She was wondering if not enough phonics is the reason that her college students were lagging. I think it is much more complicated than that. First, what I think most kids need to deal with learning…

The news has been abuzz about learning to read. We hope the answers below give you some idea of where Partners in Literacy stands on issues amidst the complexity of educating our children to become readers. 1. What is reading? Partners in Literacy defines reading as the deep interactions of the whole child with the…