Road Show To Tour America

Cybervillage, USA is mobilizing minority business owners across the country to take a positive step to help low-income children with weakness in speech, language and reading skills.

Most experts agree that the key to life-long literacy is to establish the basic elements of reading instruction – phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension – in the primary grades. But this isn’t always easy in low-income neighborhoods where children live in a wordless environment, without books in their homes or in the preschool and after-school programs they attend, making them at high risk of reading and school failure.

Through a collaborative effort of corporate sponsors, minority business leaders, pre-kindergarten classrooms and after-school programs, children in disenfranchised communities will have the opportunity to receive tutoring and free interactive books designed to improve school readiness and build language skills. Bailey the Bookworm and his team of tutors will literally hit the road to promote a love for reading in Urban America. The I Love to Read™ Literacy Road Show intends to impact one million children and their parents in 50 major cities over the next three years.

GIVE A GIFT OF BOOKS

The Children’s Literacy institute needs your help to reach one million children with interactive books designed to build vocabulary and reading readiness skills. Children are able to interact with letters and hear how alphabetic characters represent sounds, as well as understand the meaning of words. And because the computer is a one-on-one experience, these unique books allow each child to enjoy reading along with a storyteller and build literacy skills at their own pace.

As little as $15 provides one child with a personalized virtual library and every month a new interactive eZ Book™ is added for the entire family to enjoy. These online books not only feature an animated story, but engage children in a variety of interactive activities that make learning fun!

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