Rugby Public School District to begin offering literacy programming to child care providers.

Literacy is “The quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.” (dictionary.com)

A synonym for literacy is learning.  Dr. Seuss said it so well, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” 

Rugby Public Schools has received a Striving Readers’ Grant. By bringing together people from various entities within Pierce County, a review was conducted of literacy programming from birth to grade 12.  Although our current literacy programming is more than satisfactory, various inconsistencies were discovered throughout the entire program. 

The goal for this grant is to powerfully come together from various entities within our county and simply enhance the ability to read and write and learn for all children, intentionally.

Mrs. Gail Rham and Mrs. Karen Black will be teaming together for the next three years to help facilitate this promising powerful growth within our community in teaching literacy.  Mrs. Rham and Mrs. Black each have over 30 years of educational experience with a particular interest in laying the foundation for literacy growth.

Our focus this coming year will be in early literacy for those children from birth to age 5. We will meet with daycare providers, our public library, and social services and identify literacy needs, discuss how we will strive to provide those needs, and seek continuing education for all early childhood care givers and facilitators.  We will explore and research literacy curriculum for early childhood, create literacy lessons, model delivery of literacy lessons, assess and measure our outcomes, as well as provide daycare providers with research-based knowledge of literacy goals and milestones for children ages 0-5.

Thank you for your willingness to join us as we promote literacy growth in our community!

Mrs. Gail Rham and Mrs. Karen Black