Learning begins at home.
To address these factors, Louisiana Reads! empowers families with the knowledge, confidence, awareness, and literature to support their child’s learning experience at home.
Model 1 – Community Program Partner with Book Distribution
Model 2 – Growing Reading Brains: Parent Edition Workshop (virtual)
Model 3 –Growing Reading Brains: Parent Edition Workshop (on-site)
Some funding sources to consider are Title 1, homelessness funds, general operating funds, and grants that have a family engagement component.
To learn more on how to partner email our Family and Community Initiatives team at, engage@mycll.org.
Louisiana Reads! Mobile App
The app was designed with parents in mind so they feel confident being active in their child’s literacy journey.
The app’s current focus is early childhood to 12th grade.
Louisiana Reads! seeks to promote at-home reading opportunities through literacy awareness, book distribution, and direct-service to families. Together, we aim to tackle literacy challenges through quality content delivery to caretakers of children, promotion of active parent engagement, and building community partnerships. The ultimate goal is to merge classroom instruction and practice with at-home learning guidance through reading.
In this digital library, there are a number of short videos and printable pages to help increase parents’ knowledge and confidence in language-based learning for their children and utilize read-aloud strategies to foster those learning opportunities. These strategies include how to guide the child through reading, how to interact with the book, how to ask questions throughout the book that has the child critically thinking, things that foster creativity and connecting stories to real-life situations. Additionally, there are foundational reading skill learning supports.
