Children’s literacy effort in Sweet Home produces results

Reading Buddies volunteers get training from Katie Adams as the program was launched last summer.
–CLP photo

After a year of volunteers visiting Sweet Home schools to encourage literacy skills, classroom reading proficiency has increased by an average of 46% of school district kindergarteners and first-graders who can read at grade level. 

Those are numbers announced recently by Susan Coleman, who heads the Sweet Home Early Literacy Program, established prior to the start of the…