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Bookstore, COVE & KKG to Help Set Reading Record

Sun, Sep 26, 2010

Bookstore, COVE & KKG to Help Set Reading Record

The Colgate Bookstore, student volunteers from the Head Start group at Colgate’s Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE), and the Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority participate in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record on Oct. 7, the official date of the nation-wide campaign to set a new world record for the largest shared reading experience on a single day.

The local group will sponsor several activities that day. 

This year, hopeful record-breakers will read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The day-long campaign will be kicked off on NBC’s Today show and will be followed by large and small reading events organized by individuals, schools, libraries, government organizations and local businesses nationwide.

The schedule of Read for the Record community events include:

* The bookstore will host an in-store program for children from 10 a.m. to 11am, featuring the record-breaking story, a related craft, a snack, and stickers, activity sheets and a certificate of participation for children to take home.  The event is free and open to the public.

* Colgate student volunteers will read the official Read for the Record book to students in the Head Start classrooms in Madison and Morrisville.  Each student in these classes will be given their own copy of the book and a copy of the book will also be donated to the teacher for use in the classroom.  The free books will be purchased using funds raised by Kappa Kappa Gamma. 

Any teachers, schools, or classrooms interested in participating should contact Alison Kenyon at 228-3878 or akenyon@colgate.edu.

Source: Colgate Bookstore

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