JCS Students Get Fired Up About Reading

Reading incentive program kicked off.

Nearly 500 students have been given the goal of reading 2,013 books in a month as part of the Get Fired Up About Reading program at J. C. Solmonese Elementary School. The program kicked off Friday, March 1 and ends April 5. For every three books a child reads, they log their progress and drop it into a box for their grade level. In return, students will receive postcards from a dragon and will be entered in a book raffle each week. Horace Mann Insurance also donated two Kindles to give away. "This program increases excitement about reading, and that's what it's all about," said program organizer and teacher Julie Gill-Dooley. Dooley, along with Rosemary Spaulding and Gia Sunderland got dressed up in their best wizarding attire and told the…

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Scare Your Kids Into Reading with These Books for Halloween

Check out ReadKiddoRead's list of the best Halloween books for kids.

All of us—adults, teens and children—enjoy a scary chill.  What better time of year than Halloween to indulge in stories that make our spines tingle?  It's the perfect time for your family to share some spooky stories each evening. To get you started, here are some Halloween books filled with ghosts and ghouls, wizards and witches, haunted houses and black magic that everyone can enjoy together.  PICTURE BOOKS for ages 2-6 The youngest children love the fun of Halloween: costumes, trick-or-treating and gentle tales of ghosts and goblins. Here are some books for this age group: GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE By Kazuno Kohara For ages 1-6 There are fuzzy pumpkin costumes in sizes as small as 6 months, so why not a Halloween board book for toddlers? …

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New Testament to Hold Reading Awareness Night

Event to take place Monday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m.

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The Wonders of a Good Book

Reading can transport you to another world.

Reading has always been a treasured pastime in our family. My Grandmother would read thick mysteries and my dad devours everything on history, especially the U.S. Civil War. My husband reads constantly – two daily newspapers, and 34 magazines each month, mostly work-related, along with a novel. I remember riding my bike to the town library and sitting at the old wooden tables and reading every book on horses that I could. The summer reading program was always a highlight, and I was one of the first children to be done with the required reading. As the years went on, I progressed from the children’s section to the adult. And I learned about topics by looking them up in the old card catalog – the Dewy Decimal System.  There was a time after …

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