Helping kids become life long learners.

Before-School Book Clubs

Our before-school breakfast book club is a fun and interactive time. Students engage with culturally diverse literature which is the crux of our program. The characters look like them and the themes are relatable. The conversations are dynamic!

In 1990, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the “multicultural nature of the world” in which we live.

When books don’t serve as mirrors to children, Bishop says, “They learn a powerful lesson about how they are devalued in society.”

In addition to studying diverse books, in our program each student is given the book at the end of the study to build their own home library.

In Classroom Support

We implement strategies to help improve students’ comprehension by encouraging them to:

• Make connections between the readers’ experiences and the text

• Predict what will happen next

• Visualize the scenes, characters, and setting to remember what is being read

• Monitor one’s understanding while reading

• Retell and summarize what the story was about

• Engage students in academic discourse about what they are learning and reading

Social-Emotional Activities

Social development refers to a child's ability to create and sustain meaningful relationships with adults and other children. Emotional development is a child's ability to express, recognize, and manage his or her emotions, as well as respond appropriately to others' emotions.

P2R proudly uses Reading with Relevance curriculum. RWR has been approved by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. (CASEL) is the leading authority in the advancement of SEL in education. as one of their few academically-integrated SEL programs — certifying the curriculum as a well-designed, evidence-based social and emotional learning program.