United Way of the Brazos Valley president Alison Prince visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver about recruiting virtual volunteer readers of children's books that will be shown to pre-kindergarten through third grade students.

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Copy and paste this link to register: https://uwbv.org/early-literacy-program/
Additional information from United Way of the Brazos Valley:

Reading Day 2021 will be a fun way to still “bring volunteers into classrooms” without posing any health risk to students, volunteers or teachers.

In celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday in March, United Way will open a library of virtual story times read aloud by local community members for Pre-K to Third Grade teachers to utilize in their classrooms.

Follow these four easy steps to be one of our virtual volunteer readers:

Step 1 – Sign up to share your voice on one of your favorite children’s books.

Step 2 – Check out a short video with tips on recording your book.

Step 3 – Using your cell phone, a Zoom call or other recording software, record yourself reading a children’s book aloud. If using a cell phone, please record in landscape mode.

Step 4 – Once your video is done, upload it to our Google Drive folder no later than February 25.