Reach Out and Read is Making Reading Doctor Recommended
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Channel: South Carolina ETV · 2014 · News & Politics
Plenty of research has been done on the importance of early literacy. One program here in South Carolina is making reading a “doctor-recommended” activity and encourages parents to continuously administer healthy doses of reading aloud at home. The program is called Reach Out and Read. Reach Out and Read prepares the youngest children living in low-income communities to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. Providers are able to impact children with literacy education and materials from the earliest possible ages. In South Carolina there are 150 Reach Out and Read Programs in the state with 103,090 children served annually.
