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Reading: Its still fundamental
Literacy program comes to library
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Langston Chapel Elementary School kindergarten teacher Cindy Bozeman, right, draws a crowd as her students scramble to have their newly acquired books read to them during Tuesday's Reading is fundamental literacy program and book distribution at the Stateboro Regional Library.
The normally calm Statesboro Regional Library was abuzz with activity Tuesday, as library staff conducted day 2 of an annual program encouraging children to read.Colorful decorations, free books, and a show were all on the menu for Langston Chapel Elementary School students taking part in the library’s two-week Reading is Fundamental event.The Reading is Fundamental, or RIF, program and book distribution — which started Monday and runs through May 9 — invites more than 4,000 Bulloch County prekindergarten through second-grade students to the library each year to get excited about books. “The primary goal is to motivate children to read. Everything we do here — the show, the decorations, etc. — is all part of a plan to make reading exciting and fun; to show that it is important,” said Elaine McDuffie, the library’s head of youth and family services.
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