Keep Reading Celebrations are a fun and essential piece of our programming. At the end of the school year, we hold a celebration at each of our partner schools, bringing all SitStayRead classrooms together in one space to celebrate the hard work that they have all done throughout the year. They get to visit with a SitStayRead Dog Team one last time before the summer begins, and volunteers get to hand out a Summer Reading Fun Pack to each student! Each Summer Reading Fun Pack includes supplies like pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners, puzzle books, crayons, and a design-it-yourself notebook. And no Keep Reading Celebration is complete without books!
SitStayRead programs are provided at no cost to the partner school or parent. To ensure that our resources are going where they are most needed, it is important to us that schools seeking partnership with SitStayRead meet certain criteria. SitStayRead partners with schools where third graders score below the national average in reading and where the school is serving an economically fragile community. These criteria confirm that we are providing critical reading and writing help to those who are most in need.
While we are unable to visit with students for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year, we are excited to share our love of reading virtually! Every Thursday, we’ll be posting videos featuring staff, volunteers, and board members reading some of our favorite kids’ stories, with help from their furry friends. Check back weekly for more videos, along with activity pages and writing prompts to help your student write their own story!