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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
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| Laneka Smith reads with her daughter Shae’un during Bellwood’s monthly book and breakfast program. |
For some students at Bellwood Elementary, their day starts earlier than most other students’, but they don’t mind. After all, they get extra time with their parents and a free book and breakfast to boot.
Last Thursday, Bellwood Elementary held their monthly book-and-breakfast event in the school’s library, attracting approximately 50 students and their parents or grandparents to read together before the school day began.
“We are trying to encourage parents and grandparents to read with their children at home, so we invite them here to read with their children or grandchildren,” says Rita Severin, one of the school’s four Title I teachers. “It’s a great way to promote family literacy and reading with your children.”
As part of the book-and-breakfast, students read with their parents and then hear a story read aloud by one of the Title I teachers. After that, they are given a free breakfast, as well as a free book to take home.
“We are trying to get more books into the hands of the children, so we think that it is important that we can provide books for them to take to their home library. Since 40 percent of our school’s population speaks Spanish, we have books that are in Spanish and English,” says Severin. “Everyone gets some breakfast treats and leaves with a book for their home library.”
A Title I program, the book and breakfast was started nine years ago and is open to any students in the prekindergarten through second grade. Any student who wants to attend must come with an adult.
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