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Library staff previews summer reading kickoff, pilots "READ Lunch and Learn" with meals and tutoring
Summary
Library staff described a summer reading kickoff and said they will pilot a "READ Lunch and Learn" program Tuesday through Thursday offering reading activities, lunches and optional tutoring to help prevent summer learning loss.
A staff member said the event was a summer reading kickoff intended to keep children reading over the break and prevent academic slide. "What we're having here is our summer reading kickoff. A lot of times you have kids who go to school and then once they get out for the summer, they're not doing any reading or anything like that so they tend to fall in level in schools. We don't want them to lose what they've learned already, so we wanna continue it throughout the summer, but we want it to also be fun too," the staff member said.
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