Raising A Reader Massachusetts

Rar-Ma teaches parents to share books with young children to build their language, literacy, cognitive, and school readiness skills, and fosters family engagement through parent outreach, coaching, and access to culturally relevant and age appropriate books. Our program is driven by 30 years of research that shows the most significant factor impacting A child's academic success is being regularly read to by A parent or other primary adult caregiver before starting kindergarten. Rar-Ma improves academic outcomes for all children, with A focus on low-income children, immigrants, and children whose first language is not english. Our goal is to end the literacy opportunity gap by helping families develop high-impact reading routines that lay the ground work for A lifetime of learning success and productive, responsible citizenship.