Laura Johnson

Johnson's "Improving the Road to Literacy" addresses students' lack of access to books, promotes literacy, and curbs summer reading loss by implementing a summer reading program, a summer literacy camp, a free lending library, and after-school tutoring for struggling readers. Parents are enrolled as partners in the program through evening workshops to provide them with ideas to encourage reading at home. Videotapes showing students how to become better readers are also produced. This program and the partnership between parents and teachers combine to lay the foundation for a lifelong love of reading.