Literacy News

Guilford County’s monthly school readiness calendar is here! Get your child ready to start school strong with simple ideas from the Guilford County Partnership for Children. The calendar is available in 130 languages online and printable. Please share!

Summer is a great time for students to learn through fun activities. Our children work hard during the school year and they learn a lot! With fun summer learning activities, we can help them remember everything they’ve learned and keep growing. This way they’ll be ready when school starts again. At Ready for School, Ready…

The Family Literacy Program at Reading Connections provides three 10-week sessions during the school year at Title I elementary schools in Guilford County. This program provides parents an opportunity to support their children’s literacy development while improving their own literacy skills at the same time. Centered on the belief that parents are their children’s first…

Ready for School, Ready for Life and the Guilford County Partnership for Children have joined forces to create a monthly Kindergarten readiness calendar that can be used by any caregiver working to get a young child ready for kindergarten. Have feedback? Email us here. 2024 Calendars 2025 Calendars

Ready for School, Ready for Life and the Guilford County Partnership for Children have joined forces to create a monthly Kindergarten readiness calendar that can be used by any caregiver working to get a young child ready for kindergarten. Have feedback? Email us here.

Over the course of the 2022/23 fiscal year, Backpack Beginnings gave away over 40,000 children’s books to Triad families through their Family Market. BackPack Beginnings’ mission is to deliver child-centric services to feed, comfort and clothe children in need.  By ensuring food and basic items are given directly to children in need, BackPack Beginnings makes…

United Way of Greater Greensboro (UWGG) is a licensed partner of the National Raising A Reader family engagement and literacy program that has helped more than 1.2 million children and families successfully build, practice, and sustain literacy routines vital to academic success, especially children in poverty. UWGG provides Raising a Reader to six local schools…

In order to provide continuing support for North Carolina’s youngest readers, The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning has developed and released “Literacy at Home.” This digital resource provides literacy activities at each grade level, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Families and communities may access this resource for activities that specifically target…