During the spring school term, Yours Humanly hosted the second of two Family Literacy nights planned for students and families of El Monte, Wren Avenue, and Sun Terrace elementary schools, attended collectively by more than 500 students and their families, designed to promote early literacy and encourage parent engagement.
For round two, we purchased more than 1,800 books which were distributed to the three schools, with a variety of titles in both English and Spanish spanning TK through 5thgrade. While the schools customized their own literacy night format in collaboration with our Yours Humanly Family Literacy Night project manager, each school provided fun, educational activities, reading corners, and literacy-themed arts and crafts for their students, in addition to book distributions.
Family Literacy nights are made possible through our Coloring Futures initiative and a generous grant of $213,000 from the City of Concord to fund our ten-school Family Literacy Night project, benefiting more than 4,000 Concord students. View photos.
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