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Early Literacy Is Key

  • Early literacy is a strong indicator of education, economic and social success for the rest of life.
  • Low literacy in children is associated with school failure, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, and poverty.
  • The number one predictor of lifelong academic achievement is parental involvement.

Our Purpose

     10 Books A Home's (10BH) basic purpose is to ensure that children who grow up in poverty do not end up living in poverty. 

 

     We believe this process starts by focusing on three key areas:

   1. Home environment

   2. Early education

   3. Parent engagement 

 

     All children deserve to realize their success potential and 10BH will see to it that every child it serves does just that.

 

   

 

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The Need

10BH addresses two essential needs:

        1. Low parent income

        2. Little parent education


    Among the families we serve, a family of 5 reports less than $25,000 in annual income (less than 100% of Federal Poverty Line) and the average education of a parent is between seventh grade and high school.


    To complicate matters, children we serve attend under-resourced schools, most of their parents do not speak English, and 80% receive some form of public assistance.


    All this adds up to a predictable set of school and life problems from which most children never escape. Connie Juel, education expert, estimates that of children who begin grade school behind, only 13% will ever catch up.  

The Goal 

     We provide preschoolers with in-home tutoring and educational resources and First Teacher training and modeling to their parents. All our services are carried out in the home and tailored to child and parent.  

 

    As a result of our program, children will start kindergarten and first grade with all the skills, behaviors, and parent support they will need to be successful students and learners. 

  

Fact: 100% of the children we serve receive books and their very own bookcase. 

 

Fact: Our program results in parents reading more with their children.


Read one of our parent testimonials. Click here.