Read Bears
Project Name
Organisation Name
HBNC
Community Challenge
This program was developed with a focus on addressing child vulnerability and co-morbidity as well as child physical, social, emotional, language and communication.
How This Project Works
The initiative partners with local schools to give every Year 1 child a Read Bear. Children take their bear home and are tasked to read to them every night for a school term. The Read Bear inspires children to read, increase their frequency of reading, improve reading confidence, as well as engage families to make time to read together.
Summary
Read Bears is a school-based reading program designed to support Year 1 primary school children increase reading skills and wellbeing.
Read Bears uses an intergenerational community development model that fosters meaningful connections between older and younger people, bringing communities together through the shared goal of nurturing a love of reading.
Toolkit Inclusions
- Read Bears Practice Model
- Teacher Feedback Survey Example
- Registration Forms
- Read Bears Record Table
- Parent Information Sheet
- Volunteer Certificate of Appreciation for Knitting Bears
- Bear Knitting and Finishing Instructions