Like last year, Summer Reading books will not be distributed in at Library branches due to COVID-19 precautions. The program will include virtual events throughout the summer and contests. The grand finale of our 2021 Summer Reading Tales and Tails will be Saturday, July 31. We’ll showcase our contest winners, test our trivia mettle, and enjoy a special feature storytime with Sparkle the unicorn and friends.
The theme is chosen by the Collaborative Summer Library Program and adopted by libraries across the country. The Summer Reading Program kicks off virtually Saturday, June 5 at 10 a.m., with noted author and educator Kwame Alexander as the keynote speaker and live entertainment and trivia to follow. Each summer, Johnson County Library offers programs and events connected to the Summer Reading theme, which this year is Tails and Tales. June 5 - July 31: The Summer Reading Program is an initiative that aims to promote reading and literacy to children, teens and adults. Online logging must be completed-or paper logs turned in-by August 24, 2021, to qualify for prizes. Prizes must be picked up in person at branches. Prize drawings will take place after the program and will be conducted from all adult participants who complete the reading requirements and meet the winner criteria (live in the greater Kansas City area and have an active email address or phone number).
And, if you can read 20 minutes per day for another 20 days (total of 60 days), you’ll get a third free book and you’ll be entered into a branch drawing for a Kindle Fire! Adults (20+) can participate either for their own pleasure or to model good reading habits for children and teens in their home! If you read at least 20 minutes a day for 60 days between June 1 and August 24, you will earn a commemorative Summer Library Program enamel pin, plus a chance to win tickets from the Library’s Community Partners and Throwback Throwdown Concert tickets from KFKF. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, and the Kansas City Zoo! Read another 20 days, and you’ll get a second free book and be entered to win a grand prize from one of the Library’s Community partners. To recognize Missouri’s Bicentennial in 2021, we want you to “Show Me” you read! Every reader (age 0-19) who reads for 20 minutes a day for 20 days will receive a free book and will be entered into a branch drawing to win a four-pack of tickets from one of the Library’s Community partners, including Science City, the Harry S. This year, Mid-Continent Public Library’s Summer Library Program is focused on reading at least 20 minutes every day! Daily reading is a great way to keep kids engaged and active during the summer and to combat learning loss and promote school readiness. 24, the Mid-Continent Public Libraries Summer Learning Program will take place for kids and teens from birth to 19 years of age, and adults over 19. The mentor/tutors are typically retired part-time Coachella Valley residents, some with special skills who help specific students go beyond the basic.From June 1 through Aug. In the classroom, the teacher assigns individual volunteers to selected students to listen to them read, assisting them with pronunciation and comprehension. We believe the program is totally replicable in other areas that face similar challenges in providing tutoring and mentoring for disadvantaged children in a classroom setting. In 2013, Read With Me received a Golden Bell Award for English Acquisition from the California School Board Association. They love their children but cannot help them with English. The schools are all in areas of high poverty with a majority of the parents untrained in academic English. Read With Me was born and now brings volunteers from seven churches to five different schools.
Roberta asked the Superintendent if he would provide buses if they could recruit volunteers who were fluent in English through churches and other organizations. The District had been using English speaking volunteers to the extent, they could get them to go into the schools in the district that had no English speaking people in the community. Father Howard Lincoln of Sacred Heart Church readily agreed. Started in 2004 at the request of the Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent of Schools, Roberta and Clay Klein started a fund at the Desert Community Foundation and asked the pastor of their church for his assistance in recruiting volunteers.