As part of the Read to be Ready initiative, Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation, Tennessee’s Imagination Library, and Southern Word are celebrating fathers (and father figures) who read with children! Parental engagement is essential to childhood literacy. Check out this video celebrating #readingwithdad and share it far and wide! More info: [ Ссылка ]
(Books from Dolly Parton Reading Song - Minute Version
from Southern Word)
This video is the product of a collaboration between the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation, Tennessee's Imagination Library, Tennessee Department of Education's Read to Be Ready, and Southern Word to improve literacy in Tennessee and beyond. Currently, only 43 percent of students are reading on grade level by the time they leave third grade in Tennessee. In 2016, Tennessee’s Department of Education launched its Read to Be Ready initiative with the goal of increasing the percentage to 75 percent by 2025.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a nonprofit organization that promotes early childhood literacy by giving free age-appropriate books to children. Since the initial program launch in the United States, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has gone from just a few dozen books to over 80,000,000 books mailed to children in the United States, into Canada and the United Kingdom. Currently over 1600 local communities provide the Imagination Library to over 1,000,000 children each and every month.
Through the literary and performing arts, Southern Word offers creative solutions for youth to build literacy and presentation skills, reconnect to their educations and to their lives, and act as leaders in the improvement of their communities. Southern Word serves more than 5,000 youth per year through writing residencies and workshops in 8 Tennessee counties.
This project is supported by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and Tennessee Arts Commission.
Video Credits
Vocals by Rusty and Whitley Van Sickle
Music Played and Produced by Chip Martin
Video Edited by Dan Perry
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