Chapter 100 receives a $2,500 PKP Literacy Grant to establish the Rebel Reading Room at Petersen Professional Development School.

Literacy Grant info:

The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has awarded a $2,500 literacy grant to UNLV’s Chapter 100 to fund the creation of the Rebel Reading Room at Dean Petersen Professional Development School. The partnership will fund a special environment for Petersen students who are working hard to improve their reading, language, and interaction skills.

The Rebel Reading Room will contain a variety of books, both printed and audio (especially helpful to language learners), and reading tablets so students could have a chance to read magazines and newspapers online and do rudimentary research. “My main idea is to give kids a safe, fun, and environmentally ‘poppin’ space they can explore, read, dream, wonder, and fall in love with learning and literature,” says James Bowen, school librarian.

Petersen Professional Development School is located within a mile of the UNLV campus. About 70 percent of the students enrolled are classified as Hispanic/English Language Learners, and 96 percent qualify for free lunches. Once the Rebel Reading Room has been established, Phi Kappa Phi members will explore other ways to extend their partnership with Petersen.