Read to Be Ready Returns to Fairview

Published January 10, 2018

For the second year, Westwood and Fairview elementary schools will join forces to help students adopt a love for reading.

Both schools were named recipients of the year’s Read to Be Ready Grant. After last year’s success, hopes are high for the summer of 2018.

“Parents and teachers of students who attended last year have reported students who once hated reading now read in their spare time,” said FES literacy interventionist Eileen Brogan.

The Read to Be Ready program is a month-long camp where students will spend more than 80 hours on improving their reading skills and becoming more motivated to read on their own. Last year, students were sent home with around 20 new books for them to keep and enjoy after the camp ended.

“We are thrilled to be able to participate again,” Brogan said. “I’m really looking forward to it.”

Students will be invited by their teachers to participate in the program.