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SPINNING A YARN ABOUT BASEBALL page 3 READING & RIDING
AUDIOBOOKS AND VACATION TRAVEL page 4 TUNE IN AT THE LIBRARY
A NOTEable SUMMER FOR MUSIC page 5 ALICE C. SABATINI GALLERY
summer readers are winners
Seventh-Day Adventist students receive grand championship reading trophy for 2011 from their teacher/principal Sara Henninger.
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ids love the prizes they earn for reading: a free book, bowling passes, ice cream and chocolate, among other rewards. Parents love knowing that their kids’ test scores won’t fall off when school resumes. Sign up the whole family for summer reading at summerfest.tscpl.org. There you can also see the grand prizes up for grabs to some lucky readers. Children’s reading skills begin to dry up when the educational “faucet” is turned off over the summer. Your library helps prevent that backwards slide. Keeping reading skills sharp is as easy as picking up a book or magazine for 15 minutes per day during the summer. How do we know it works? In partnership with three local schools, we studied students’ reading test scores pre- and postsummer reading. We found that 80 percent
of summer reading participants read at or above grade level when they returned to school. Developing good reading skills leads to success in other subjects as well. “Reading is part of everything you do,” said Leah Anderson, one of two homework coaches at the library. “Even when children are working with math problems, reading concepts are being used.” Teachers will have sharper students, and schools may earn ultimate bragging rights. Schools with at least 10 percent of their student body participating earn a trophy. Schools with 25 percent or more of their students reading receive a trophy and prize pack of books. “Once kids have reached middle school – could be earlier – and we continued on page 15 see READERS
A CUT ABOVE ART EXHIBIT FOR CHILDREN page 6 EBOOKS IN LIBRARIES
SIGN THE PETITION FOR EBOOKS page 6 LIBRARY TRUSTEE MELISSA MASONER
MARKET PLACE OF IDEAS page 7 ON THE ROAD
THE LIBRARY ON WHEELS page 8 FREE COMPUTER CLASSES
YOUR LIBRARY SCHEDULE FRIDAY FLICKS
MONDAY FARMERS MARKET June-July schedule starts on page 10