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No. 8 Vol. 4
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April 2016
Developing Emerging Readers At Mendham Borough Library
By Anastasia Marchese here is an ongoing initiative at the Mendham Borough Library called “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten.” The idea behind the pro-
gram is to get preschoolers to develop an early love of reading by exposing them to many different books and to offer them positive reading experiences. According to the 1,000 Books website “The Foundation is oper-
ated exclusively for charitable, literary, and educational purposes. The objectives of this organization are: to promote reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers and to encourage parent and child bonding through reading.” The research is overwhelming; reading with very young children has lifelong literacy benefits. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics “Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime.” That is why Amanda Ort, the Head of Youth Services at The Mendham Borough Library, is pleased to offer the “1,000 Books” program at her library. So far there have been about 20 children participants. Children can join at any point.
Each child who signs up will receive a pamphlet with pictures of 25 ducks on it. Each time the child completes a book, they can mark off one of the ducks. After the first 25 books, the child will receive a rubber duckie as a prize. Once they reach 500 books read, the
child will receive a Mendham Borough Library teeshirt with the phrase “If you would like to be a leader, you have to be a reader.” Once the child reaches the 1,000 books goal, they will be invited to the celebration event at which the child will be the recipient of
a golden duck trophy. The recent “1,000 Books” celebration was televised on Mendham Television. Parents and caregivers may be wondering if the child needs to read/hear 1,000 different books. Anyone who has read to chilcontinued on page 4
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