Monterey Public Library Joins Jumpstart's Read for the Record
Helping Make Early Education a National Priority through Record-Breaking Reading Campaign
The Monterey Public Library is joining a national effort to create awareness about the education gap that exists between socioeconomic levels in the U.S. while raising money to fund early education for underserved youth. Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is a national campaign to engage hundreds of thousands of children and adults in an effort to break the world record for the most children reading the same book on the same day. Monterey Public Library, on September 20, will try to visit all Kindergarten classes in the city of Monterey and read the official featured book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. In addition, children may stop by the Library all day long to hear or read the story.
“Early learning experiences are crucial to the growth and development of young children,” said Karen Brown, the Library’s Youth Services Manager. “Jumpstart’s Read for the Record provides an opportunity for everyone in the United States to make early education a national priority.” She encourages readers of all ages to register at www.readfortherecord.org and sign up to read The Story of Ferdinand, on September 20. Children, parents and teachers are also encouraged to get a free library card and read together. Reading to children from birth provides the base for learning to read in Kindergarten.
Jumpstart’s Read for the Record will generate public awareness by creating the largest “shared reading experience” ever and by breaking the record set on a single day in August 2006, when 150,000 people across the country read the same book as part of the inaugural campaign. Last year, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record raised more than $500,000 to support the organization’s early education work in low-income communities.
The problem starts in the years before kindergarten. Studies show that children from low-income communities engage in one-to-one reading far less often than their middle class peers. Also, these same children sometimes do not have any age-appropriate books in their homes. The result: children from families with lesser means tend to enter kindergarten with vocabularies that are one-fourth that of children with access to greater financial resources unless they make good use of libraries and advice from professional librarians. For more information call Youth Services Manager Karen Brown at 646.3744.
Posted: September 14, 2007
Media Contact: Jeanne McCombs
Phone: 831.646.3949
Helping Make Early Education a National Priority through Record-Breaking Reading Campaign
The Monterey Public Library is joining a national effort to create awareness about the education gap that exists between socioeconomic levels in the U.S. while raising money to fund early education for underserved youth. Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is a national campaign to engage hundreds of thousands of children and adults in an effort to break the world record for the most children reading the same book on the same day. Monterey Public Library, on September 20, will try to visit all Kindergarten classes in the city of Monterey and read the official featured book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. In addition, children may stop by the Library all day long to hear or read the story.
“Early learning experiences are crucial to the growth and development of young children,” said Karen Brown, the Library’s Youth Services Manager. “Jumpstart’s Read for the Record provides an opportunity for everyone in the United States to make early education a national priority.” She encourages readers of all ages to register at www.readfortherecord.org and sign up to read The Story of Ferdinand, on September 20. Children, parents and teachers are also encouraged to get a free library card and read together. Reading to children from birth provides the base for learning to read in Kindergarten.
Jumpstart’s Read for the Record will generate public awareness by creating the largest “shared reading experience” ever and by breaking the record set on a single day in August 2006, when 150,000 people across the country read the same book as part of the inaugural campaign. Last year, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record raised more than $500,000 to support the organization’s early education work in low-income communities.
The problem starts in the years before kindergarten. Studies show that children from low-income communities engage in one-to-one reading far less often than their middle class peers. Also, these same children sometimes do not have any age-appropriate books in their homes. The result: children from families with lesser means tend to enter kindergarten with vocabularies that are one-fourth that of children with access to greater financial resources unless they make good use of libraries and advice from professional librarians. For more information call Youth Services Manager Karen Brown at 646.3744.
Posted: September 14, 2007
Media Contact: Jeanne McCombs
Phone: 831.646.3949
