Thanks for a great summer! We hope you’ll join us again next year!
More than 2,000 kids (ages 2-rising 6th grade) participated in Adventure Begins at Your Library this year, once again earning beads and stickers to celebrate their reading goals. Between our three buildings, the Book Bikes and visits to summer school programs, we distributed more than 20,000 beads this summer! Kids logged 1,347,579 minutes of reading… that’s over 2.5 years worth of time.
While younger children tallied the picture books read to them, independent readers had a goal of 20 minutes of reading per day. Research shows that without regular reading practice over summer break, students can lose a significant amount of the learning gains they made over the previous school year. Remember, all reading is good reading! If your child thrives with audiobooks or graphic novels, this is not cheating and helps strengthen language processing, as well.
We’ve put away the beads for this year, but can’t wait to see your excited readers back for more next year.
