Bay District Schools rejoice Read Across America all week

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Reading is a superpower that prepares youngsters for a profitable future.

Bay District Schools celebrates Read Across America all week to emphasise to college students the enjoyable of choosing up a guide.

“What they’re striving to do is show students that reading can be fun. It is fun, it is fun to get lost in the world of a book,” stated Bay District School Superintendent Mark McQueen.

BDS skilled a decrease literacy price amongst third graders after the pandemic, however McQueen stated lecturers and oldsters have helped enhance that price.

“It’s not just our teachers. It’s our parents that are coming alongside that are helping,” McQueen stated. “Those parents that read with their child at home just twenty minutes a day makes a huge difference.”

The Free Library on Wheels [FLOW] is actively working towards enhancing literacy charges as effectively, stated Flow Executive Director Laura Roesch. On Monday, they celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with Girls Inc.

“I don’t like to read, that’s a personal challenge,” Roesch stated. “Our volunteers look at that as an opportunity to help that child find the book that is of interest to them that will make that child a reader. It happens time after time.”

FLOW volunteers additionally discover enjoyable actions like rapping a Dr. Seuss guide. The ladies then get to choose a guide to carry residence.

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