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Would you give one lunch hour a week to change a young child's life? Book Buddies do that! Volunteering one lunch hr a week to read with a child who is struggling to learn to read, can and does make all the difference. Reading aloud with an adult helps children to reinforce reading skills, and shows children that adults do care about them, and about reading. This is one hr that works.

Project Read - Literacy Connections Hudson Valley

Imagine you live in a home where you don't see your parents or anyone else doing much reading. Imagine you don't have a book at home to look at. Imagine that reading for you is all about school, and not in a good way. For too many children, this is not something to imagine at all, it is part of every day life.

Studies show that if children are not comfortable and reading at grade level by Grade 3, they are at high risk of continuing to struggle and eventually dropping out of school. Project READ was designed to give children a happy, positive experience with books and with reading before it is too late.