Read-Aloud Delaware

Read aloud Delaware, Inc. Promotes and carries out programs aimed at ensuring preschool children have someone to read to them on a regular basis.read aloud partners with 88 childcare centers, 2 clinics and 2 prisons.in the past year, 400 volunteers conducted approximately 57,845 individual reading sessions for Delaware's children.

Lena start is a program implemented by read aloud Delaware, Inc. The program consists of 10 weekly, one-hour sessions and uses regular feedback from lena's core "talk pedometer" to improve talk in the home. The wearable pedometer lets parents know how much they're talking and how many back-and-forth interactions they are having with their children. Over the 10-week program, parents learn about the importance of interactive talk along with ways to incorporate more talk into their daily routines. Lena start helps parents improve communication in the home, and is giving them the tools to close gaps in key skill sets that include reading, comprehension, and language development. The lena start program impacted nearly 100 families during fiscal year 2022.