Rhoda Reads hits Auburn-Lewiston...
Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club President, David Foster and first lady, Tricia read to kids at local elementary school.Rhoda Reads™ is an early literacy program designed especially for Rotarians to engage in the development of our youngest community learners at the most opportune time – when they are ages 0-5. Learning to read is a major foundational skill which strongly correlates with both academic and vocational success. With the Rhoda Reads™ program, we provide training to our Rotarians on early childhood development, and then equip each Rotarian participant with a Rhoda Reads™ Tool Kit which includes a variety of books for children up to age 5 as well as an adorable stuffed owl named Rhoda (our program mascot). Rotarians are then matched with a local early childcare provider which they will regularly visit and spend time reading to children 0-5 years of age.