Literacy Program
Inspire, equip, empower
Welcome!
Reading isn't easy for everyone. In fact, reading can be hard work! Reading involves more than being able to read the words on a page, and knowing how to read for meaning is essential to reading success. St. James' has answered a call to meet a literacy need in the Leesburg community by developing a literacy program for low income rising third graders who have been identified as falling below in grade level reading. We'd like to invite you to be a part of our mission.
Did You Know?
When children don't learn to read, they become adults who don't have adequate reading skills to fill out job applications, read food labels or read stories to their children. They often lack the literacy skills to find and keep decent jobs, support their children's education, or participate actively in civic life.
Source: The International Reading Association
Reading Carnival Camp
Reading Carnival Camp is a literacy program for rising third and fourth graders who have been identified by their second grade teachers through the Loudoun County Public Schools as needing extra support in learning and developing reading skills. Campers are provided with individualized and small group instruction by certified teachers and volunteers in a non-school-like, theme-based environment, boosting their achievement in phonics, reading strategies, writing, pleasure reading, math, and reading comprehension. Children also develop personal relationship skills, self-confidence, and vocabulary skills while participating in afternoon activities such as swimming, tennis, hiking, games, arts and crafts and theme related fieldtrips. All campers attend Reading Carnival Camp and the After School Readers' Theater Program on full scholarships sponsored by St. James' and the Leesburg community. The entire RCC program is run solely by volunteers.
St. James' Reading... (shutterfly.com)
Vision Possibilities (PDF)
"But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown." Matthew 13:22-24
