Monday, May 10, 2010

Wisconsin Bookworms Program Reaches Milestone

It has distributed its 500,000th book!


Link to May 9 Beaver Dam Daily Citizen article.

Excerpt: Wisconsin Bookworms works through a partnership of the Wisconsin Association for Home and Community Education, Cooperative Extension Family Living Programs and Wisconsin Public Television with the goal of encouraging literacy, introducing children to the joy of reading and promoting reading in the home.

"We want to reach children when they are young by exposing them to books and teaching them the value of reading," says Marcie Suprise, WAHCE Wisconsin Bookworms state chair.
Community volunteers attend preschool classrooms, read to children and provide activities that relate to the stories. Children receive copies of the books with additional suggestions for story-related activities they can do at home with their families.

Parents whose children participate in Wisconsin Bookworms report that they talk more often with their children about books, spend time reading together and visit the public library
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