PREP Delaware

The Rotary Club of Wilmington and the Prekindergarten Reading Encouragement Project have partnered to read at five Wilmington preschools:
Christina Cultural Arts Center, Kingswood Community Center, Latin American Community Center, St. Michael's School & Nursery, and Stubbs Early Education Center.
This is a win-win for the children and the Rotarians.

An event to support children reading and the Christina Cultural Arts Center.

We’re excited to announce Lenny Williams as the featured author for CCAC’s Literary Cafe on November 13th! Join us at the Route 9 Library for a special evening where our drama program will act out a scene from one of his books. Plus, there will be a Q&A and meet and greet with the author!

Click the link in our bio for tickets to this FREE event!

Thanks to Sheila, Rose, Peg, Peter, David, and Mike for assembling the Literacy Packets this year at One Village Alliance on August 28th. Over 300 PreK children benefit from taking the activity papers, crayons, scissors, etc. home at the beginning of this school year. The teachers and parents at five Wilmington early childhood centers.

Many thanks to our volunteers for assembling 250 literacy packets for our community partners!

Rotarians are reading to PreK children on five Wilmington early childhood centers each month. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Wilmington, Delaware for partnering with PREP.

Thanks Westside Family Healthcare for supporting PREP’s passion about reading to preschool children.

Please share with your friends with small children. Reading with children ages 0 to 5 years old is important when they enter elementary grades.

Want to make storytime more engaging? Check out these tips for reading aloud to your child!

Good advice for parents, aunts and uncles, and grandparents. Have you read to a child recently?

celebrates the magic of storytelling and the incredible impact that sharing stories can have. ✨📖 Reading with your young child not only nurtures their development but also strengthens the invaluable bond you share. Grab a book and make the story your own — you’ll create memories that will last a lifetime. 📚❤️

After three years, it was good to be back in a preschool classrooms with the children. with the help of a fellow Rotarian and two teachers each child made a paper snowflake. This was an activity from RANGER RICK JR. January 2024 magazine. Each child took home a copy of the magazine to share with the family.

While PREP genneraly supports four-year-old preschool children, it’s very important to start talking and reading to babies and toddlers agrs 0 to 3 years old!

https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/supporting-language-and-literacy-skills-from-0-12-months?fbclid=IwAR08-DNuGOxyxkkSnQiiSkEUnTYyqF-FjSW_fbvLtiLKhW1sxNaMuCVUtmY_aem_Ae-4seRSLD_hnCHym1YG27l98-FkN5sQaQoNM_BlJ76RuBXcNPWBtY6tgblmsTdVKZg

Supporting Language and Literacy Skills from 0-12 Months Language and literacy skills start developing early—from birth. Learn how you can support these skills from birth to twelve months.

Happy Holidays as 2023 comes to the end.

PREP has been busy in the 2023-2024 school year. In September three new preschools were add, Warner Elementary, Red Clay . School District Early Educatio, and Christina Cultural Arts Center (CCAC). There are a total of 350 low-income Wilmington children receiving monthly RANGER RICK JR. (RRJ) magazines.

This past week we gave 12 books to the two classrooms at CCAC. In partnership with the Rotary Club of Wilmington, volunteers will again be reading “on-the-carpet in the preschools.

Wishing everybody the best 2024,
Mike Wilson, Founder
Prekindergarten Reading Encouragement Project

As we begin 2023, we are excited to bring more literacy materials and RANGER RICK JR. monthly magazines to Delaware preschool children. Thank you to teachers at the 12 centers supported by PREP, you are so important to the children as they prepare for kindergarten and further education.

What started as a University of Delaware project in 2013 will celebrate our 10th anniversary this year. From 85 children in three centers that first year, PREP has grown to 390 children in twelve centers. Were especially proud to provide translated reading guides and Ricky & Pals adventure stories to over 150 Hispanic families in Wilmington and Georgetown.

We could not have done this without many individuals supporting us, both emotionally and financially.

May you have a blessed New Year!
Mike Wilson, Founder