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- Title
SPOTLIGHT: FIRST LADY SALUTES PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
- Authors
Nelson, James A.
- Abstract
The article reports on the visit of Kentucky's first lady, Glenna Fletcher to Summer Reading Workshop held at Frankfort, Kentucky, in the first week of March 2004. She expressed her appreciation for the efforts of librarians in Kentucky to help kids develop the love of reading. In her speech at the occasion she recounted her reading experience as a young girl. She emphasized on cultivating reading habits among children and said that librarians can play a very important role to achieve this. In her speech she said that books and reading can have a profound impact on a child's life and librarians can change a child's life by encouraging them to read. Praising summer reading program she said that it gives children an incentive to read books without the pressure to take a test or score points. She also talked about Read to Achieve Act of 2004. It is a recently passed act that will provide for a comprehensive school-wide reading program in each elementary school. The Act will also help teachers target struggling readers and provide diagnostic reading assessments and intervention services for them.
- Subjects
FRANKFORT (Ky.); KENTUCKY; UNITED States; LIBRARIES; LIBRARIANS; FLETCHER, Glenna; READING promotion; BOOKS &; reading; READERS
- Publication
Kentucky Libraries, 2004, Vol 68, Issue 2, p4
- ISSN
0732-5452
- Publication type
Article