Community partnerships boost literacy efforts in Washougal schools

Washougal School District elementary students have benefitted from several local early-literacy programs this winter. 

Read Northwest, a Clark County-based nonprofit organization that endeavors to promote early childhood literacy in Southwest Washington, hosted book giveaway events for students in the first, second, and third grades at Hathaway Elementary, Columbia River Gorge Elementary, and Gause Elementary School earlier this year. Every student chose one free book to take home from the hundreds of options set up in a book fair-style display at the event.