Sunday, March 25, 2007

ABCs of Change For Latino Children

A program to help Latino children and their parents learn the value of reading, even before they start kindergarten. DP

Advocates Push Early Education Programs To Help Community Bridge Achievement Gap

By Maria Glod, Washington Post Staff Writer

Washingtonpost.com: The children and parents gathered for story time one recent Saturday morning in the District heard "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" not once but twice. "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf," the Eric Carle classic began in the first rendition.

"Bajo la luz de la luna, encima de una hoja, habia un huevecillo," it began in the second.

Afterward, children drew caterpillars and butterflies and ate cupcakes. Everyone left with a copy of the book. Among the crowd at the CentroNia family support center were Angie Lemus, 5, and her mother, Sandra Gomez, 19.

"When I was little, no one read books to me," said Gomez, a daughter of Salvadoran immigrants. "My mother didn't have any kind of education at all, so it was hard for her to read a book even in Spanish." But Gomez has a different routine with Angie. "Every night we read a book," she said. "Now it's normal."
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