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VIDOR — Vidor Independent School District and Read to Them non-profit have partnered to increase literacy in the community with the Texas Reads One Book program.

Read to Them is a non-profit that promotes literacy with family literary programs across the country to help children become active readers at an early age. Each student will receive a copy of “Lemonade Wars” by Jacqueline Davies as part of the program and have families read a chapter each evening.

“Our reading schedule will take about 15 minutes each night,” says Read to Them

Executive Director, Christa Donohue, “putting the entire community literally on the same

page. Their reading will be augmented with classroom activities, author interactions,

trivia contests, prizes and fun opportunities for family engagement.”

The Texas Reads One Book program is set to begin Feb.10 as thousands of students will join together to read the same book.

“We want to remind our children that learning can be exciting again with a fun way to

encourage families to continue making reading at home a priority,” says Dr. Jay Killgo,

Superintendent of Schools.