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For Immediate Release
Date: May 11, 2017
Contact: Hannah Goering
(847) 377-8099
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Special education teacher and
veteran George Singleton will read to children at the next “Leaders are
Readers” event at the North Chicago Health Center, 2215 14th Street
in North Chicago. Readings will take place in both English and Spanish. Children
will also receive free books from Words on Wheels and take part in fun activities.
This free event is open to the public and will take place on Saturday, May 20,
from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
The Lake County Health Department launched the “Leaders are
Readers” series in relation to its commitment to the 30 Million Words Initiative.
The initiative encourages parents to read more to
their children, since there is a direct correlation between early verbal
experiences in childhood and later achievement.
Research shows
that children who are not exposed to enough words during their first years of
life often have vocabularies that are half the size of other children by age 3.
This puts them at a disadvantage when they start school.
For more information, please send an email to: KSingleton-Reed@lakecountyil.gov.
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