Orlando's Preschool Ambassadors

Anna, Brittany, and Lillian’s favorite league, the Adult Literacy League, has teamed up with the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County in the creation of Preschool Ambassadors, one of the six initiatives within Mayor Buddy Dyer’s Orlando Cares citywide service plan. According to the National Institute for Literacy, literacy really begins during infancy with an infant’s exposure to words, speech, sounds, and print. Furthermore, the Institute also states that one key predictor of future success in school is a child’s preschool performance. Preschool Ambassadors was created with this in mind and specifically for the purpose of increasing the literacy proficiency of preschoolers within Orlando. One outcome of Preschool Ambassadors will be to have families spend at least 2 hours a week reading together. How do we plan to accomplish this you ask? Well this is where our favorite League comes in!


If you haven’t heard yet the Adult Literacy League already has a great family literacy program called Read to Me! This year-long program provides qualifying families with a brand-new book and materials for a corresponding activity, both at no cost to the family. All the families need to do is return the blue evaluation sheet included in the package and then another book will be sent to the family or brought to the preschool. The family has to have a child who is between the ages of 3 and 5. For more information about this program or how you can become involved in the Read to Me! program, check out: http://www.adultliteracyleague.org/about/famliteracy.html


So where do Anna, Brittany, and Lillian fit into this plan? Every Friday we’re going to post an article on the Adult Literacy League blog that we will so lovingly refer to as our “Family Literacy Friday” post. The articles posted will be written by the three of us and will include articles about literacy games, a potential “wacky word of the week”, literacy tips/tricks to practice, and other ideas that will make reading and improving literacy more fun for parents, children, and essentially the whole family!


Check back every Friday to see what we have store in for you and have a Happy Friday!