Rolling Readers Space Coast, Inc.
Rolling Readers,a non-profit literacy program, started on the Space
Coast in 1997.  We are part of a grassroots campaign to develop
children’s desire to be lifelong readers by providing them with high-
impact program materials, books and volunteer services.  Since
1997, we have grown to include hundreds of volunteers who are now
reading to and working with children (prekindergarten-fifth grades) in
Brevard County Title I elementary schools.

Volunteers in the Read Aloud
program read to children weekly,
inspiring their minds, touching
imaginations, developing
language skills,and providing
a positive impact on the lives
of children.  





          
                     
                                    We also sponsor a unique Reading Skills
program.  A Reading Skills Team, made up of four team members, is
assigned to a school. Each volunteer is given a specific day of the
week for their service. The volunteer goes into the school one hour
each week, to work one-on-one with four second grade students (15-
20 minutes with each child.) Using a leveled set of books, the
volunteer helps the children expand reading skills, enrich
vocabulary, and improve comprehension and fluency.

The Grade-level Reading Intervention Program (G.R.I.P.)
targets 8/9 year old children and involves
innovative, weekly small group sessions
conducted in a workshop format.  
Volunteers use learning activities that
are hands-on and high interest to
the students ,reinforcing target reading
skills.


At year's end, all participating students receive a new quality hard
covered book as a gift from their Rolling Reader.

Free training for all three programs is provided at various locations
in the county.

Volunteers are currently serving over 7,000 students in 35 Brevard
County Title I public elementary schools.

                  See the difference. Feel the difference.
                Make the difference...one book at a time

"I feel very blessed to have found Rolling Readers. It's great being a
part of a Win-Win Situation. The children fill a need for me, and I
feel I fill a need for them."         Rolling Reader, Emma Jean McKinley
About Us:
"Have a positive impact on children's lives."

"The man who does  
not read good           
books is no better     
than the man who     
can't."
           ~Mark Twain

"Oh, magic hour,       
when a child first       
knows she can read  
printed words."

       ~ A Tree Grows
    in Brooklyn, 1943
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Our Mission:
To inspire children's     
love of reading, touch   
their imaginations and  
creativity through          
books and build a         
community of                
successful, life-long      
readers by providing     
trained, committed        
volunteers and new      
books to at-risk             
elementary aged           
school children.




Our Vision:
The Rolling Readers     
purpose and vision       
are very clear. We        
have a major crisis in    
our country. In the        
past forty years our      
society has become      
less literate, with the     
biggest decline             
occurring in those         
children already in the
bottom half in reading
test scores. This
societal problem
requires a societal
solution. It is time for
each of us,
individually, to make a
difference in the lives
of the children in our
schools and
communities. At
Rolling Readers, we
are a catalyst for
making it happen.


Rolling Readers:
Uniting Brevard County
children with books and
caring adults to
promote a community of
life-long readers since
1997
Mission Statement
Vision Statement
"We believe that a
love of children and a
love of books go
hand in hand.
~Robert
Condon