Letter P.A.L.S. - FREE Online School-to-Home Reading Program

1.	Once you receive the Letter P.A.L.S. Parent Notification Letter, sign up for the Letter P.A.L.S. program session under your child's teacher classroom identification number.
2.	Starting on Monday, January 22, 2007 - Winter Session or Monday, October 1, 2007 - Fall Session, login with your child under their classroom identification number.*
3.	Each week during the 8-week session, read your child's personalized letter with them, ask the Parents Paws for Reading questions, and click on the Readers are Winners button, which will electronically inform your child's teacher that you read this week's letter.
	*If your child's classroom is not participating at this time, please feel free to print off the Teacher Notification Letter to notify your child's teacher about the Letter P.A.L.S. family reading program.

Letter P.A.L.S. is a FREE online K-3rd grade school-to-home reading program, which is offered during Fall and Winter Sessions. Each session is 8 weeks in length. The Winter Session begins on January 22, 2007, and the Fall Session begins on October 1, 2007. Letter P.A.L.S. was created to provide a dynamic way to help teachers, parents, and guardians motivate children to become strong readers.

Each session of the Letter P.A.L.S. school-to-home reading program consists of 8 different online Pet Shop Pen Pals letters, which are delivered one at a time on Mondays of each week over a 8-week session period, at the Readers Are Winners web site. Every weekly letter is personalized with each child's name, is three pages in length, professionally written, beautifully illustrated, and reviewed by reading specialists for use in a shared/guided reading environment. You can learn more about the Pet Shop Pen Pals by clicking on the Pet Shop Pen Pals section.

Every Monday during the 8-week session, a personalized letter will be waiting for your child. When you are done reading each three-page letter, there will be a fourth page called "Parents Paws for Reading." It includes specific questions and answers for each specific letter and is intended to bring the most meaning to each letter. Ask the questions, go over the answers, and click on the Readers are Winners button. This will electronically tell your teacher that you read the weekly letter and place a small paw print on the teacher's classroom Paws for Reading Chart by your child's name for that week.

By working together, all children can become strong readers!