Why
a Compact for Reading?
Success in helping many more children read well often depends on a partnership among families, principals, teachers, and students. A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among these partners that describes how each partner can help improve the reading and other language arts skills of children from kindergarten through third grade, including those with disabilities and with limited English proficiency. Tutors and other community members can also be partners in a Compact for Reading.
The Compact for Reading Guide is a user-friendly handbook designed to walk your family-school compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading.
The handbook is intended to help and guide partnerships in forming compacts without adding requirements.