Free Books, Videos, Read-Alouds and Virtual Workshops Seek to Strengthen Early Learning and Literacy While Providing a Supportive Community for Immigrant Parents and Caregivers.

Literacy Partners and Univision recently announced their alliance to launch a new virtual workshop series and virtual community: Leyendo en Casa, a monthly workshops series for parents-by-parents is a new initiative of the La Fuerza de Familias Latinas campaign which provides resources and programming to help parents engage children in early learning and literacy activities. that provides parents and caregivers with dynamic digital resources, reading strategies, read-alouds, and other tools—drawing from home culture and language—to both strengthen early learning and literacy and promote a love of reading.

Workshop participants also have the opportunity to receive a free age and culturally-appropriate bilingual book to help build their library at home. This series also features educational media created by Literacy Partners and Univision including short video clips with Gaby Rivero, best remembered for portraying Maestra Jimena on the popular Univision telenovela Carrusel.

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