Louisiana Reads!

Learning begins at home.
  • Learning Begins at Home- Did you Know?
    • NAEP scores should reflect 2022
      • Grade 4- 28% reading at or above grade level
      • Grade 8- 27% reading at or above grade level

Researchers have found two factors that contribute to this:

1. Access to Books
2. Being Read to Aloud 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.

Bridging the gap between classroom instruction and at-home learning.

Bring Louisiana Reads! to your school or district with our NEW program models.

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.

http://lareads.org

The Literacy Lightbulb

The Literacy Lightbulb texting service provides parents with literacy tips and activities that can be done at home.
Tips are available to support early childhood and elementary as well as middle and high school.
To start receiving your monthly interactive literacy tip, text the word “LAREADS” to (833) 460-0546.
Don’t wait; please sign up to start receiving fun-filled activities that you and your child will surely enjoy!
Standard message and data rates may apply. You can opt-out by replying with STOP at any time.

Louisiana Reads! Introduction

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.

Testimonials

“One of the things we love about Louisiana Reads is that they inspire us to continue reading, and they inspire us to allow the children to pick their own books so that they can learn, read, grow, and develop with the books. That way they can learn new things, experience new adventures, and get a better idea of the world around them. A book can take you many places. Our parents enjoy the Louisiana Reads app and the Literacy Lightbulb texts. They encourage us as well as our parents to not just read to our students but to interact with them while they read. To point out vocabulary in the story and expand on it, to explain the illustrations, cover all the questions, and make the sounds that they really love. Louisiana Reads is just a great program to be a part of and to be connected to. They have made such an impact at Radiance Child Development Center at all five of our locations in such a great way. We’re so grateful just to be connected with them. Thank you, Louisiana Reads. We appreciate you guys.”

- Brenda Looney, Radiance Child Development Center