Story Leaders

Page Ahead’s Story Leaders program is a reading intervention that trains educators and families in evidence-based shared reading techniques for preschool children. Story Leaders is designed to rapidly develop vocabulary and language skills and provides eight free books that the students have read in class during the school year to take home, building both their home libraries and reinforcing the home–school connection. 

Story Leaders is delivered in public Head Start and ECEAP (Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program) preschool classrooms where roughly 45 percent of the students are children of color and about one third speak a language other than English at home. It supplements existing curriculum and resources, helping to dismantle the literacy achievement gap that is too often experienced by children of color and children from under resourced communities before that gap becomes irreversible. And it helps teachers, families, and children engage in meaningful, joyful reading together!