Goals:

1. To encourage Native children and community members to read for pleasure.
2. To encourage intergenerational reading in Native communities.
3. To provide Native American communities with opportunities to engage in and communicate about reading.
4. To promote library usage in Native American communities.
5. To document the impact of a culturally based reading program.
6. To provide opportunities to thematically explore reading and reading related activities.
7. To increase reading skills among children and community members.
8. To improve the collections at Native American communities' libraries.

1. To provide four thematic reading programs at the libraries serving Native American children to coincide with the four nine-week grading periods.
2. To prepare and disseminate reading promotion packets to encourage adult caregivers of Native students to read to and with children and to document this activity through the use of Reading Logs and other material.
3. To provide children with new leisure reading material based on their interest areas by providing students with paper and electronic reading preference forms on which they submit requests for new materials.
4. To increase youth leisure reading through the provision of new books and promotional events and measured by time spent reading (or being read to) and number of titles read.
5. To provide a safe electronic chat room available for young readers to discuss reading with other Native American students and educators and adult Native American mentors.
6. To increase reading skills as measured in standardized reading tests used in the schools.
7. To develop and maintain a webpage that documents the literacy project.
8. To seek additional support to extend the reading program to other interested Native American communities.
9. To test a model for a reading program that may be duplicated in other Native American communities.