Promoting public library summer reading programs

["Tony L. Pope" <Pope1966@AOL.COM>]

Does anyone have any great ideas to help entice students to participate in
the summer reading program conducted by the local public libraries?  Our
local public library does a great job with prizes for number of books read,
storytellers, big kickoff day, etc...but it just seems that not as many
students from my area participate as I would like (we have about 350 kids
with an average of about 20 kids participating each year).

One idea I have been thinking about is to announce the last two weeks of
school that any McHenry student that shows up and finds me the day of the
sign-up will get some sort of prize from me or put their name in for a
drawing.

We are having summer school for four weeks in June and the library will be
open for our students from 8am-4pm.  I hope this will be an incentive for
them to participate in the public library event and utilize our library for
books.

I hope to do a them with "Camp Library" and give away prizes for visiting our
library if funding permits.

If there is an interest and enough ideas, I will post a hit.

Thanks in advance!

Tony Pope, Library Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Drive
Rome, GA  30161
Pope1966@aol.com

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