Active readers, watch your inboxes or mailboxes for Read Aloud’s year-end Reader Survey. This is the best way for us to know who wants to read again (and who, for some crazy reason, does not), so we can provide those names to schools’ Read Aloud coordinators early the next school year. This allows schools to get a jump start on placing readers in the fall, and helps ensure that you get placed where you want to be. It also allows us to identify remaining reader needs at a school after existing readers have been placed, so we can fill those as soon as new readers become available. (Please note that it is the school coordinators who will contact you for placement, not the Read Aloud office; but if you do not want to wait until your school’s coordinator reaches out, be proactive. Call your school or teacher directly!)
We also love feedback on your volunteer reader experience! Use the survey to tell us something good, or bad, or funny, or problematic, that happened. If you have ideas to improve the program, let us know! And if you found a book that was a home run with your class, please share it, and tell us why. We created a book list on our website from titles readers have suggested for others to use.
We are testing electronic (email) delivery of these surveys this year, but we don’t have email addresses for everyone. Surveys should be returned no later than June 30 so we can plan for the school year ahead.
If for some reason you do not receive a survey, our recent database conversion is likely the reason; but we still want to hear from you! Take the survey here or contact us to request your survey by email or hard copy.
Thank you in advance for your response. We absolutely cannot do this without you. Keep on reading!