LANSING, Mich. — To encourage proficient literacy and reading comprehension, Head Start school in Lansing hosted literacy day Thursday morning for its students.
Students, ages three to 5-years-old, rotated reading stations outside on their schoolyard and were read books by parent and community volunteers.
The Lansing police and fire departments attended the event to lend a helping hand and read to the students, also.
Head Start is a program created for children from disadvantaged families to become as prepared for school as their classmates.
The urgency for literacy within young students is that by third grade, if they are not proficient readers, students will need to repeat the third grade.
To help prevent that from happening, Head Start has implemented word walls and labels on most things within all of their classrooms.
Head Start announced a 1000 book reading challenge.
The 188 students will be responsible for reading as many books as they can each day to hopefully reach the goal of reading 1000 books by May 16.
Mandi Woodward, Head Start education supervisor, said she is confident her students will reach the 1000 book goal in time and said next year she is going to increase the challenge to 2000 books.
In addition to advancing their reading comprehension, each student at the Head Start on Grand River will receive a book from PNC.
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