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COVID-19 Response Reading Ready Pittsburgh is committed to supporting families and their literacy needs during this challenging time. Thank you Carnegie Library of Homestead!!! Raising A Reader with COVID-19 Adaptation Reading Ready Pittsburgh has developed a new Raising A Reader model to ensure families attending our partner childcare programs are able to take home books to share with their children. In order to do this safely, Reading Ready Pittsburgh partnered with the Carnegie Library of Homestead to provide each of our partner sites two sets of book bags. Their red Raising A Reader bags and blue Library Bags. Childcare programs switch between sending red or blue bags home each week. This model gives childcare programs extra time to sanitize and quarantine books and bookbags AND allows families to have access to high quality books each week to share at home without a break! Fall 2020 Read With Me Program Reading Ready Pittsburgh provided our Head Start classrooms and 4 Kids Early Learning Center with our Read With Me series. Each week, for 6-8 weeks, books and family engagement tip sheets were delivered to classrooms and sent home with families. Holiday Book Giveaway Reading Ready Pittsburgh gifted over 700 brand new books to children and families during the 2020 holiday season. We partnered with the following organizations: MUSA Little Lambs Angel's Place - Swissvale Learning and Educational Daycare Sister I Need You Douglas Academy Jamie Miller Family Daycare Home Splash of Learning Steel Valley Early Head Start Steel Valley Family Center Rainbow Kitchen For Good PGH Summer Read With Me Program Summer 2020, Reading Ready Pittsburgh developed an 8 week program to continue supporting our partner childcare programs. Each week books and family engagement tip sheets were delivered to childcare programs and sent home with families. Summer 2020, Reading Ready Pittsburgh distributed over 800 books. Summer 2021, Reading Ready Pittsburgh distributed over 900 books. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Since March 2020, Reading Ready Pittsburgh has enrolled over 700 families into Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Each child registered receives a book mail to their home each month. Learn more Book Distribution Reading Ready Pittsburgh has provided almost 1,500 books to local community organizations in Homestead and Braddock to be redistributed to the community. Super Summer Book Bags Summer 2020, Reading Ready Pittsburgh purchased 120 Super Summer Book Bags through our national partner Raising A Reader. These bags are being distributed to incoming Kindergartners through local elementary schools.

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If you do not live within the 20 additional zip codes we offer or the official city limits of Pittsburgh as indicated by the zip code list below, you are not eligible for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library at this time.

Ready4K Ready4K is an evidence based family engagement curriculum delivered via text message that helps caregivers support their children. E ach week, caregivers receive text messages with fun facts, easy tips, and growth activities on how to promote their children’s development by building on existing family routines – like pointing out letters on the shampoo bottle during bath time. Or text RRP to 70138 to enroll REGISTER HERE FACT: Balance and coordination help toddlers navigate the world. They're important for physical tasks like climbing stairs and playing on a jungle gym. 1 year-old sample message TIP: As you lie in bed, play an emotion game. Whisper a feeling like happy or sad. Then show each other the face you make when you are feeling that way. 3 year-old sample message GROWTH: Keep comparing groups of objects. You're getting ready 4K. Now challenge your child to identify which hand is holding fewer pennies. Try one more time! 4 year-old sample message Thank You! Reading Ready Pittsburgh received a grant through the Ready4K organization to offer Ready4K to our Allegheny county families for the next 2 years.

Get free children's books sent to your home every month through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and Reading Ready Pittsburgh! Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free high-quality books to children birth through age 5, no matter their family’s income. Eligible Zip Codes: 15025 - 15034 - 15045 - 15104 - 15110 - 15112 - 15120 - 15122 15131 - 15132 - 15140 - 15145 - 15148 - 15221 - 15218 REGISTER What Is It? Each month a new, carefully selected book will be mailed in your child’s name directly to your home. The first book is always the children’s classic The Little Engine That Could™. Best of all it is a FREE GIFT to your child through our partnership with local organizations! There is no cost or obligation to your family. Who Is Eligible? Children under the age of five in the following zip codes: 15025 - 15034 - 15045 - 15104 - 15110 - 15112 - 15120 - 15122 15131 - 15132 - 15140 - 15145 - 15148 - 15221 - 15218 What Are My Responsibilities? 1. Be a resident of 15025 - 15034 - 15045 - 15104 - 15110 - 15112 - 15120 - 15122 15131 - 15132 - 15140 - 15145 - 15148 - 15221 or 15218 zip codes. 2. Submit an official registration form, completely filled out by the authorized adult. 3. Notify Reading Ready Pittsburgh any time your address changes. Books are mailed to the address listed on the account. Note: If the child’s address changes, you must contact Reading Ready Pittsburgh in order to continue receiving books. 4. Read with your child and have fun! When Will I Receive Books? Eight to ten weeks after your registration form has been received, books will begin arriving at your home and will continue until your child turns five or you move out of the covered area. 1,470 children enrolled! 431 graduates Like free books? Click here to receive more free resources for caregivers REGISTER

Birthday Book Gifting Our Birthday Book Gifting program allows participating sites to gift each child in their childcare program an age appropriate, high quality book on their birthday. Birthday Book Gifting brings joy to children on their birthday and provides families quality books for their home library. How you can help: Purchase your favorite book(s) and send them to Reading Ready Pittsburgh. We'll wrap and deliver them fo r you! Questions? Email Ka thy Buy Local from these Pittsburgh Book Sellers: Send to: Reading Ready Pittsburgh Birthday Book Gifting Program 222 East 8th Avenue Homestead, PA 15120 Baby Preschool You can also shop from our wish list!

Upcoming Events with Reading Ready Pittsburgh Past Events Family Library Day September 16, 2023 12 - 2 pm Carnegie Library of Homestead, Homestead, PA Braddock Literacy Day May 20, 2023 1 pm - 3 pm Clara E. Davis Civic Plaza, Braddock Birthday Book Wrapping February 8, 2023 9:30 - 11:30 am Reading Ready Pittsburgh Office, Homestead Beverly's Babies - Duquesne January 17, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm First Presbyterian Church - Duquesne Red Lantern Bike Giveaway December 4, 2022 12 - 2 pm Free Store, Braddock Volunteer Service Day October 12, 2022 1 - 4 pm Various Little Giveaway Library Locations Storytime at Amity Garden September 18, 2022 10 am - 12 pm Amity Community Garden, Homestead Mon View Paint Day June 3, 2023 10 am - 2 pm Mon View Heights Apartments, West Mifflin, PA Storytime at the Laundromat March 16, 2023 3:30 - 5:30 pm The Laundry House. 8th Avenue, Homestead Author Visit: Natasha Tarpley February 1, 2023 World Read Aloud Day N. Braddock Holiday Giveaway December 17, 2022 11 am - 1 pm Braddock's Battlefield History Center Homestead Holiday Parade December 3, 2022 12 pm Homestead Birthday Book Wrapping October 7, 2022 10 am - 12 pm Reading Ready Pittsburgh Office, Homestead Storytime at the Laundromat August 27, 2022 10 am - 12 pm The Laundry House, 8th Avenue, Homestead