Office of Educational Services & Support

Compact for Reading

The Compact for Reading and School-Home Links Reading Kit encourages greater family, school, and community involvement in the education of children in kindergarten through grade three.  It is designed to improve the skills and achievement of children in reading and other language arts and consists of a user friendly Compact for Reading Guide that provides a simple 5-step process for developing, implementing, and evaluating school-parent compacts, which are required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 118(3).  The School-Home LInks Reading Kit contains 400 reading activities that are based on the reading skills framework provided in the National Academy of Sciences' report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children and a reading framework developed by Edward Kame'enui and Deborah Simmons of the University of Oregon.  These activites are designed for at-home reinforcement of in-school instruction.

You can visit the Compact for Reading web site at:
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/