Book Buddies: Building Literacy through Animals

from $199.00

Students learn phonics, vocabulary, reading, and writing skills through animal interactions. This high-engagement program is geared towards emergent, struggling, and proficient readers of all ages, and are great for schools, libraries, homeschool groups, afterschool programs, and more!

Our animals will visit your location twice: once for the program launch and once for the celebration. For the duration of the 12 week session, learners will work their way through a variety of online language arts activities based on the animals they met, with regular virtual animal encounters built in. Start and end any time! Additional mileage cost of $1/mile added for locations over 30 miles from Pascagoula, MS 39567.

  • Level 1: Foundations is our early skills program, geared towards early readers learning to identify letters, sounds, print concepts, and story elements.

  • Level 2: Exploration targets readers that are beginning to engage with literature and informational text, and focuses on building decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

  • Level 3: Fluency is created for readers that have basic skills under their belt, but need to fill in gaps, increase fluency, and build self-efficacy and motivation.

  • Level 4: Mastery is a program for proficient readers who are ready to be pushed to higher level thinking through research and analysis.

Program Length:

Students learn phonics, vocabulary, reading, and writing skills through animal interactions. This high-engagement program is geared towards emergent, struggling, and proficient readers of all ages, and are great for schools, libraries, homeschool groups, afterschool programs, and more!

Our animals will visit your location twice: once for the program launch and once for the celebration. For the duration of the 12 week session, learners will work their way through a variety of online language arts activities based on the animals they met, with regular virtual animal encounters built in. Start and end any time! Additional mileage cost of $1/mile added for locations over 30 miles from Pascagoula, MS 39567.

  • Level 1: Foundations is our early skills program, geared towards early readers learning to identify letters, sounds, print concepts, and story elements.

  • Level 2: Exploration targets readers that are beginning to engage with literature and informational text, and focuses on building decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

  • Level 3: Fluency is created for readers that have basic skills under their belt, but need to fill in gaps, increase fluency, and build self-efficacy and motivation.

  • Level 4: Mastery is a program for proficient readers who are ready to be pushed to higher level thinking through research and analysis.