Partnering with Parents: Boosting Literacy for All Ages

Caregiver involvement is key to a child's reading success story, and libraries are in the perfect position to provide the guidance needed for parents and caregivers to embrace their role as their children's first and most enduring teachers.

• Teaches librarians how to mentor parents and caregivers, offering different strategies to make a child a reader for life
• Includes a go-to list of books and materials to recommend and display
• Offers programs that work to engage parents and caregivers in their children's reading life
• Shows how to make the library a center for education and learning