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Opportunity Details

Make Reading Success Kits for Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service 2016

Boston Cares | http://www.bostoncares.org 

 



For MLK Day 2016, Boston Cares will create opportunities for 650 volunteers to support literacy programming in classrooms. MLK Day volunteers will create Reading Success Kits for the Lee Academy, Winship Elementary, and Edward Everett Elementary Schools within BPS.  Each Reading Success Kit will include a small bookshelf, grade-specific books, literacy games, hand-made picture books to serve as “story starters’” and classroom sets of literacy flashcards and reading journals. Additionally, students at Lee Academy will each receive a lap desk they can take home with them to support their learning outside of school hours.             

By the end of the day, we hope to create the following:

  • Build, sand, and paint 50 bookshelves
  • Create 100 literacy games
  • Create 1,250 reading journals
  • Craft 120 "story starter" picture books to facilitate story telling
  • Assemble 1,200 grade-specific literacy flashcards
  • Create 180 lapdesks for students to take home and serve as a portable learning space.
This year we are pleased to partner with Boston Public Schools and will be holding our Day of Service at Boston Latin School.

T-Accessible: Green Line (E train) at Longwood Medical Area

This project is open to Pending members who have registered with Boston Cares. You do not need to have attended an orientation.

If you are under 18 years old, you will need to bring a signed waiver in order to participate. Please download this form and have a parent sign it -- you will need this in order to participate! 

Please remember that there must be one adult for every three youth under 18!


By Signing up below you are signing up to participate in the family friendly Reading Success Kit Projects. Please be aware that you must sign up ALL members of your group/family that will be attending! For instructions on how to register as a group or family please click here. To return to the MLK Day of Service 2016 homepage, click here.
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Age Minimum (with Adult): 5+, Minimum Age:16+

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