This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Reading
The Ocean County Library System is holding a book drive to collect new children's books to be distributed throughout the library's "Sparks Best Friends Forever Reading Club" program.
All 21 locations of the Ocean County Library System are accepting new book donations through December 31st, 2010, including Toms River, Barnegat, Lacey, Stafford, and Berkeley.
Since the "Sparks Best Friends Forever Reading Club" program was started in 2008, the library has collected and distributed more than 4,000 books throughout the community.
Little know fact: By 4th or 5th grade, odds of struggling readers catching up with their peers are very low. It is of vital importance that ALL children "keep up" with their peers and do not fall behind for their appropriate grade level.
The earliest ages a child goes through are truly his or hers most formative years. From birth, children are sifting through stimuli and learning how to interact with their surroundings and the people they're in contact with. Parents are critical to laying a foundation on which a child's education is based on. Parents are most often a child's first teachers and from them a child is taught not only fundamentals of education, but how to learn as well.
Socialization of a child is heavily influenced by his or her peer group and that includes attitudes toward learning and education. The America's Children report reflected that children's inclinations toward education also affect their ability to learn. Instilling a love for reading and encouraging your child to maintain it aids in a stronger desire to resist persuasion of peers in the negative and helps them continue to develop.
Reading is instrumental in forming a foundation on which to build a child's educational career...and forming that foundation as early as possible is key.
For more information call the Ocean County Library at 732-349-6200 or from Southern Ocean County, call 609-971-0514.
Karl Hess, Your Real Estate Agent in Ocean County
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