Read for the Record

West Palm Beach
October 7, 2010


Forecast Calls for Snow!

Please join the Literacy Coalition on Thursday, October 7, 2010, and read The Snowy Day, by award-winning author Ezra Jack Keats, to children throughout Palm Beach County.

Read for the Record is a campaign designed to bring attention to the importance of early education. By encouraging thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day, we aim to break a world record and make early education a community priority.

Bring your preschool child to Palm Beach Ice Works, 1590 Florida Mango Rd,
West Palm Beach at 10 a.m. on October 7 to hear celebrity readers, see ice skating and enjoy and a truly Snowy Day! To register, call (800) 273-1030.
For more information, please e-mail nrice@literacypbc.org.

This annual event was created in 2006 by Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all children in America enter kindergarten ready to succeed.

 

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES (coming soon!)

 

 

 

 

Look at all the fun we had in 2009 reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle!

 butterfy kids

At Mounts Botanical Gardens, children, parents and teachers gathered to hear celebrity readers make Eric Carle books come alive. Special guests readers included:

Leslie Gray Streeter, Staff Writer, The Palm Beach Post
Felicia Rodriguez, Meteorologist, WPBF News 25
Tania Rogers, Anchor/Reporter, WPTV NewsChannel 5


Each year the Literacy Coalition organizes thousands of adults to join the Read for the Record campaign to raise public awareness about disparities in early education.

Previous Read for the Record selections were:
2008 - Corduroy by Don Freeman
2007 - The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
2006 - The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

 

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

The children and staff in childcare centers and family care homes throughout Palm Beach County join with the Literacy Coalition in thanking these community partners who had a special role in Read for the Record 2009 on Thursday, October 8:

 

Area Agency on Aging
Board of County Commissioners, District 3
Boca Raton Fire Rescue Services
Barnes & Nobles
Borders Booksellers
Boynton Beach Fire Rescue
Boys Town South Florida
Children's Services Council
City of Atlantis
City of Belle Glade
City of Boynton Beach
City of Delray Beach
City of Delray Beach Fire Rescue
City of Greenacres
City of Lake Worth
City of Pahokee
City of Palm Beach Gardens
City of Riviera Beach
City of South Bay
City of West Palm Beach
Clearwater Butterfly Company
Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County
Family Central
ImMEDIAcy Public Relations
Jarden Consumer Solutions
Kiwanis Club of Jupiter-Tequesta
Lake Worth Fire Department
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue
Palm Beach County Library System
Palm Beach County Municipal Libraries
Palm Beach Flagler Rotary Club
Office Depot Foundation
Office of Senator Bill Nelson
Quantum Foundation
Quantum House
The Palm Beach Post
Town of Cloud Lake
Town of Juno Beach
Town of Jupiter
Town of Lantana
Town of Lake Park
Town of Manalapan
Town of South Palm Beach
Velocity Community Credit Union