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.

When you sign up your classroom, you will be assigned a unique classroom identification number. Three weeks prior to the program start date (January 22, 2007 - Winter Session and October 1, 2007 - Fall Session), notify your students' parents/guardians to sign up under your classroom identification number. An official Parent Notification Letter has been drafted for you and can be found in your login section. All you have to do is print one off, sign the letter, make the appropriate number of copies, and send them home with your students.

Every Monday, starting on January 22, 2007 - Winter Session / October 1, 2007 - Fall Session, a new personalized letter will be made available for the parents/guardians and students to read together online during the 8-week session. As a means to provide you with parent/guardian accountability, a unique feature to each letter called "Parents Paws for Reading" has been added. It follows the third page of each letter and includes specific questions and answers for each weekly letter, in order to bring as much meaning to each weekly reading experience. After they finish, the parent/guardian clicks on the Readers are Winners button. Automatically, a small paw print is placed for that student for that specific week on your very own online classroom Paws for Reading Chart. Anytime you log in, you will be able to see your classroom chart. This will allow you a quick and easy way to monitor the level of weekly participation in each home.

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By working together, all children can become strong readers!