Parents As Reading Partners is a collaborative effort among parents, staff, and community to build a reading partnership between the home and the school. PARP is a program designed to foster the love of reading in children by asking parents to set aside fifteen minutes daily to read with their children.
Learning to read is the single most important activity in a child’s education. Studies show that children who read at home are better prepared to succeed in formal education. The Parents As Reading Partners program is aimed at involving parents in the essential task of helping their children become lifelong readers.
The primary objective of the program is to encourage reading at home. Children turn to their parents as role models and are more likely to follow the example of a reading parent. Reading at home further provides a supplement to the excellent reading programs currently used in our nation’s schools. PARP asks parents to encourage their children to read, impressing upon them the fact that reading can be fun as well as informative. In addition, the daily communication shared through PARP will serve to strengthen the family.
Past PARP Assemblies:
2007-08 - The students cast their votes for who will get "slimed", the winners were Mr. Sinnenberg and Mr. Haluska
2008-09 - The students cast their votes for who will get turned into "Hamburger", the winners were Mr. Bold and Ms. Donofrio. They were
drenched in burger toppings…pickles, ketchup, mustard, mayo…the works!
Primary Files and Forms that will be helpful in running the program:
PARP 2008-09 End of Year Report
