Motheread Incorporated

Programs: Services to adults literacy development classes were provided throughout wake county in partnerships with the north carolina community college system office, the north carolina department of public safety, the wake county department of human services, safechild, inc. , first united methodist church-cary, and apex united methodist church. Of those people served, a total of 192 students attended motheread/fatheread classes in community and correctional settings, and 324 students received instruction in special topic literacy classes. A total of 16,923. 5 instructional hours were provided to these students. Following an average of 65 hours of instruction, students who were pre and post-tested improved an average of . 26 grade levels on casas for esl students and . 66 grade levels on casas for abe students. Services to children in partnership with meredith college and community volunteers, 57 people provided more than 570 hours of reading and literacy support services. These services were provided in four local elementary schools. Services to childcare professionals a professional development program for wake county childcare providers was conducted with funding from wake county smartstart. Twenty-eight trainings were provided in 15 childcare centers. A total of 119 teachers were served with 94% improving in read-aloud strategies and literacy development activities, and 93% improving their classroom literacy environments. Services to pediatricians in partnership with wake county smartstart, motheread provided support services to two local pediatric practices that were participants in reach out and read. As part of this national program, we helped the practices to make literacy additions to their waiting rooms as well as facilitated their acquisition of books to be given to their patients.

training the motheread training coordinator and other staff made 15 technical assistance visits to 15 community colleges across the state. These visits provided an opportunity for program evaluations and recommendations for improvement. Eighteen trainings were held across the state with 271 people being trained through the initiative funded by the north carolina community college system (ncccs) office. Fourteen of the trainings were keeping it real: contextualized instruction. The remaining four trainings were my united states. The majority of participants trained were abe faculty. In addition to the trainings funded by the north carolina community college system office, 19 other trainings were conducted in north carolina and in our affiliate network across the country. Seven of the trainings were held as part of our participation in the race to the top early learning challenge transformation zone. Eleven trainings were held in colorado and one in south carolina. A total of 290 people completed these trainings. New inititatives and partnerships this past fiscal year presented us with the continuation of the opportunities and initiatives that started in 2012/13 both in our national affiliate network, in north carolina, and in wake county. Our colorado affiliate (colorado humanities) completed the second full year of their five-year initiative that is providing motheread/fatheread institutes and story exploring throughout the state of colorado. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to increase the frequency and quality of low-literacy parent/childcare provider/early childhood educator reading to children, more visits to libraries and more books in homes and childcare centers. On the state level, motheread continues to be part of the state implementation team for the early learning challenge grant from the u. S. Department of education and the u. S. Department of health and human services. Initial training and implementation of programming has started in four eastern north carolina counties - chowan, bertie, beaufort, and hyde. We have continued to work as part of the leadership team of the wake up and read initiative that is a community approach, lead by wake county public school system staff, with a goal of having all children reading on grade level by the end of third grade. Motheread is involved primarily in implementing programming that will help parents help their children improve their reading skills. With funding from the pnc foundation, we provided a series of literacy workshops for parents entitled abc's for you and me: activities, books, connections (abc's). The workshops were provided in partnership with knightdale head start and served 87 parents thereby reaching 207 children. Curriculum development two new curriculum initiatives were completed. One was the development of a supplement to the motheread/fatheread curriculum for instructors who work exclusively with esl populations. The second was the revision of the workshop curriculum (abc's) so that it could be used in specialized esl workshops for parents of preschoolers. We also added a new, on-line, module that contains a series of learning activities that can be used with esl students. The module, civics in context 4 - work: downloadable activities for students, is a series of learning opportunities that encourage esl students to develop work and technology skills within the context of learning english and civics.