Early Reading Program at Woodward Elementary- A Rotary Literacy Service Project

The Rotary Club of Brookhaven invited the Rotary Clubs of North Atlanta, South DeKalb, Dunwoody, and Decatur, to join in an initiative to help Pre-K and Kindergarten students at Woodward Elementary by "reading to learn" by 3rd grade. With the support of a Rotary District Grant and partnering with the Ferst Foundation, together we are supporting this goal through book donations and reading monthly to ten kindergartner and three Pre-K classes at Woodward Elementary. Throughout this year, we'll donate more that 3,000 books to 248 students, read to 13 classes monlthly and equip parents with book specific multi-lingual reading guides to use at home. This early reading project is helping students "learn to read" and learn to love to read, so that by the time they reach third grade they will be "ready to learn" through reading. The Rotary Club of Dunwoody is excited to partner with our Sister Clubs to help promote this great project in 2016 - 2107, and look forward to continuing this partnership in 2017-2018,