Goals and Benefits



RAP has five goals:

  1. To encourage parents/caregivers and teachers to read to children on a regular basis


  2. To provide resources to help parents and teachers choose books and read to children


  3. To demonstrate the pleasure of reading and its relevance to daily life


  4. To nurture a love of reading in parents and awaken a love of reading in children


  5. To encourage families to limit television, computer, and video time and read

Benefits of the program

For the family

   Provides a family activity that promotes closeness and communication

   Gets parents and children reading more

   Provides book lists and handy tips for reading together

   Creates lifetime readers, not school time readers

 

For the school

   Helps students read better and listen better

   Strengthens the links between school and home

   Actively involves parents in the education process

   Creates good feelings about the school

 

 

 

 

 

For the community

   Raises the literacy level of adults and children

   Forges bonds among schools, businesses, and community agencies

   Creates informed citizens and a literate work force

   Brings families together for a common goal

 

           

Click here to see the Program Objectives and the measurable results of the 102 RAP programs to date.

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