7/14/18 UT Tyler Born To Read Program Promotes Early Literacy by Jessica Payne
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Juana Zermeno, 27, smiles with her daughters Aliyan Felix, 1, (left) and Amari Felix, 4, (right) while attending the Born-to-Read project’s last parent meeting of the year. The project was put on through UT Tyler and aimed at bringing awareness to the critical role reading plays in the early stages of childhood. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
Award winning author Sharon Thayer was on hand for the last parent meeting of the Born-to-Read project put on through The University of Texas Tyler on Saturday, July 14. The author gifted each family with a signed copy of one of her books. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
Born-to-Read Project Coordinator and UT Tyler graduate student Azalia Perez welcomes parents to the project’s last meeting of the year on Saturday, July 14. The focus of the project was to make parents aware of the critical role of reading to babies and help build their capacity to engage in practices that promote early language and literacy development. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
Participants in the Born-to-Read project share introductions at the last parent meeting of the year. The project ran for a year through UT Tyler and had 21 active families at the project’s end. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
Born-to-Read Project Assistant and UT Tyler graduate student Jennifer Hernandez passes out literature at the projects last parent meeting of the year. The project, put on through UT Tyler, was a year long incentive to bring awareness to parents of the critical role reading to babies plays as early as in the womb. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
The University of Texas at Tyler’s Dr. Kouider Mokhtari, an Anderson-Vukelja-Wright Endowed Professor of Literacy Education, leads the last parent meeting of the Born-to-Read project on Saturday, July 14. The project was put on through the university and aimed at bringing awareness to the critical role reading plays in the early stages of childhood. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)
Parents gather at the UT Tyler campus for the last parent meeting of the Born-to-Read project put on by the university. The year long project, which aims at bringing awareness to the importance of reading to children at an early age, had 21 active families. (Jessica T. Payne/Tyler Paper)