Creating Moments That Matter
Reach Out and Read envisions a world where every child has the relationships essential to learn and thrive.
We aim to strengthen all families with young children through guidance from medical clinicians about nurturing relationships through shared reading.
80% of a child's brain is formed within the first 1,000 days.
What happens during the first few years sets the stage for the rest of a child’s life. Spending time together while reading aloud helps to create strong parent-child bonds and promotes healthy brain development.
Children that are read with more often have improved language and listening skills, experience stronger emotional connections to their loved ones, and gain a lifelong love of reading.
Support for Parents:
At Reach Out and Read Michigan, we believe all families should have the tools and support they need to make shared reading a daily habit. Through our program, we empower parents and caregivers to build early literacy skills by integrating books and reading guidance into pediatric well-child visits.
Our trained medical providers encourage families to make reading a regular part of their child’s routine and offer guidance on how early literacy supports healthy brain development. During checkups, children receive age-appropriate books, helping to foster a love of reading that lasts a lifetime.
With just a book and a conversation, we help build stronger bonds, promote healthy childhood development, and create a brighter future for Michigan’s children.
Nurturing Young Minds
Our network of pediatric clinicians provides families with the understanding and tools they need to make reading and storytelling part of their daily routines.
Shaping Bright Futures
It’s vital that children benefit from reading and other language-rich experiences starting at birth. Reading together furthers language acquisition, promotes brain development, and provides an opportunity for families to build powerful, lasting bonds.
Reading is a Right
You can make a difference in a child’s life. Our parent organization, Ready for School, has data that shows parents first trust their family, friends, neighbors and medical providers.
