Support Reach Out and Read

Deploy books to build strong brains.

Join thousands of families nationwide and support programs right in your community by donating books (both new and gently-used), improving literacy-rich waiting rooms, and reading aloud to children at select program sites.

Potential Recipients

Support your local Reach Out and Read affiliate or the national Reach Out and Read program.

What you’ll need

• Print one of DGT’s bookmark templates: Explore a Story, Pass it On or blank.

• Art supplies: Crayons or colored pencils, scissors, clear packing, and tape or laminating paper

Instructions

Learn more about Reach Out and Read!

Your family can support Reach Out and Read in lots of fun ways!

• Host a virtual book drive (they make it easy!) and build a book oasis.

• Host a gently-used book drive (as local pandemic conditions allow).

• Volunteer directly as local opportunities become available.

Reflection

• In high-poverty communities in the U.S., there is only one book for every 300 children. (In higher-income neighborhoods, there are about 13 books for every child.) Does your family have access to good picture books and chapter books?

• Is there a favorite book or series you feel especially grateful for?

• Do you have a favorite reading spot at home? If so, talk about a time when you read there recently. If not, talk about what your dream book oasis might look and feel like.

Resources

Click here to preview the book.

• A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader edited by Maria Papova and Claudia Bedrick
  Perfect for book lovers ages 10 and up, this collection of deliciously inspiring essays and illustrations features writers from Neil Gaiman and Jane Goodall to Rebecca Solnit and Regina Specktor.

• Browse DGT’s Picture Books for Bibliophiles collection.

Take it further

• Donate favorite books to a local shelter or children’s hospital.

• Host a book drive for a shelter or organization in need.

• Volunteer to read to seniors at a nearby nursing home.

Browse the projects in our Big-Hearted Families Tookit!

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