Phase One Early Child Literacy Partnership Completed

During Phase One of Early Child Literacy Partnership, "Books for Families" Target helped Literacy for Tykes to provide books and materials with specific step-by-step guidelines to parents on how to share characteristics of each art illustration ( done by highly esteemed children's picture book artist Delia Bowman Wach) with their early child.
This necessary first step to establishing lifelong learning/ literacy skills is called Visual Literacy. Ideally all children have a chance to experience lap reading with their trusted adult (parent) between the ages of birth through three years old. If they have not had that important book sharing with their parents in that period then age four is still in time to help them catch up before entering Kindergarten. Without this early literacy experience, 50% of children entering kindergarten are at-risk to fail, stay 2 years behind their age mates throughout school and eventually dropout of high school before graduation according to Southern Early Child Association (SECA), often ending up in prison.
These agencies were given books and materials in Phase One of this Partnership for Early Child Literacy, "Books for Families" :
Piedmont Healthy Families serving 7 counties of Heartland Virginia;
Infant and Toddler Connection of the Heartland 7 counties (first half of their caseload);
Buckingham County Social Services, Family Visitors.
Gold Hills Elementary, Early Child Special Education. ( a few sample books).
These organizations are highly dedicated professionals giving ongoing service to families in need. They note that prior to this intervention "These families often have no books in the home".

Literacy for Tykes is grateful to Target for their very special one-time grant recognizing the need to help strengthen these families and give their children a better chance for a brighter future.

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We launched Phase One of Early Child Literacy Partnership:Farmville/ Tri-County-Plus with donations from the general Public and a very special grant from Target.
We have many requests for the book Teddy Bear's Favorite Pictures, written by Nancy Cloyd who has given up her royalty rights to make this a truly nonprofit project.