11/28/2018
Happy ! It’s the most wonderful time of year, and also time for our second Holiday Book Drive. The Learning to Talk Lab at the University of MD, in partnership with the Baltimore City Public Schools, is evaluating whether a dialect-shifting language arts curriculum supplement improves early reading skills for kindergarten and first grade children in Title 1 schools in Baltimore. This drive benefits the students we work with through our Toggle Talk project in Baltimore City Public Schools.
Our goal this year is once again to provide each of the 550 kindergarten and 1st grade students at our partnership schools a new book to take home this holiday season. While one of our goals is to promote literacy over the school year breaks, we also want to gift books that highlight culturally and linguistically diverse characters and experiences.
To do this, we need your help! If you’d like to support learning and make a student’s holiday season a little brighter, please go to the link below! Purchase as many books as your would like, and they will be delivered directly to our lab. Our team will do the rest, and personally wrap each book and deliver them to the students before the winter break.
Please feel free to share our post and link, to spread the word about our goal. Thank you very much for supporting our book drive this year!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1YOYBSS2IF6JT
