Register for Summer Workshops

Ready, Set, Read is online this summer! Join us every Wednesday for 6-weeks to take part in our free literacy workshops for parents via zoom. During this series, we will conveniently offer the workshop in Spanish at 11am and English at 2pm. Registration required.

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS

JULY 15th: Foundations of Literacy introduces parents to Ready, Set, Read! and focuses on the organization’s three ingredients for success: Read Together, Talk and Listen, and Put Education First. 

JULY 22nd: Math and Literacy introduces parents to math concepts appropriate for their child’s age, including number concepts and quantities, number relationships and operations, geometry and spatial sense, patterns, measurement and comparison. They also learn how to reinforce these concepts through conversation and play.  Parents receive a set of UNO cards, and learn how to use them with their children.

JULY 29th: Science and Literacy introduces parents to the three main branches of science that their child will be exposed to in elementary school. They also learn how to increase their child’s scientific literacy through conversation and play.

AUGUST 5th: Let’s Read, Let’s Talk takes a deep dive into dialogic reading techniques, equipping parents with strategies they can use at home to increase their child’s literacy development through asking questions, predicting, teaching the parts of a book, and summarizing content.

AUGUST 12th: Art and Literacy introduces parents to visual art, music and dance, and dramatic play. Parents learn how to use these activities to develop their child’s literacy.

AUGUST 19th: Ready For Kindergarten begins to equip parents for their child’s transition to kindergarten. Topics include registration, a Day in the Life, and a ready for kindergarten checklist. Parents also learn about some of the content their child will be expected to master in kindergarten.