Pioneer Library System

Children’s Center Staff from the Pioneer Library System will be present to introduce and explain a new program called Growing Like a Read. The presentation will be for the adults; but, librarians will be on hand to provide play activities and supervision for children who attend with their adults.

 

Growing Like a Read is a project of the Pioneer Library System, Inasmuch Foundation, and Tinker Federal Credit Union which will begin in September 2009 and continue through 2012. Growing Like a Read is designed to teach parents how to encourage their children’s early literacy skills, preparing them to learn how to read.

 

Families who participant in the program will receive materials that they can keep throughout the Growing Like a Read program. The materials will include a tote bag containing a stand-up book of nursery rhymes and songs, a chart with age-appropriate activities, an accompanying CD, and a piggy bank that represents the investment they are making in their child’s development. New activity logs are given to participants at six-month intervals. When they complete a set of activities on their long, they received a board book for their home library and are entered in a drawing for a savings bond donated by a local bank.

 

Registration is not required to attend this informational meeting September 24. You may call the library at 275-6353 with further questions.