Learning to read starts long before a child enters school, and reading is what helps a child become a good student. A child’s cognitive development during early childhood, which includes building skills such as pre-reading, language, vocabulary, and numbers, begins from the moment a child is born.
Parents are their children’s first and most important teachers. When young children are provided an environment rich in language and literacy they begin to acquire the essential building blocks for learning how to read. - Michigan State Board of Education, Early Literacy Task Force Report
Helping a child read is a gift. The Michigan Department of Education offers resources for parents on ways to encourage early learning and reading.
An initiative from the Parent Involvement Group offers the Transition to Kindergarten Parent Guides to support a child's learning and readiness for Kindergarten.
The Community Literacy Collaborative in Battle Creek, MI, has designed to provide information for adults who want to improve their reading skills or study for the G.E.D., and parents who want to help their children become successful readers.
The Capital Area Literacy Coalition helps children and adults learn to read, write and speak English with an ultimate goal of helping individuals achieve self-sufficiency. We achieve this through direct services and by enhancing literacy efforts of community organizations in the Capital Area and throughout the state of Michigan.
The Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC) formerly the Detroit Area Lifelong Learning Coalition (DALLC) is a partnership of organization in southeast Michigan devoted to helping adults read, write, and acquire the basic skills for success in today's world. The DLC believes in a fully literate society and functions to support, promote, and ensure the availability and accessibility of literacy services through the collaborative efforts of its members
Greater Grand Rapids Reads, a coalition of community leaders working to reduce illiteracy in Kent County, believes that literacy is the key to our community's quality of life, economic, self-sufficiency and family stability.
