The Orange County Library System is encouraging readers to build a daily habit through its Summer at Your Library reading challenge. Participants read for 30 days and track their progress, with reading trackers available at all library locations. Beginning July 1, completed trackers can be turned in for a chance to win prizes.
The library system says the challenge is about more than prizes, describing it as a way to build a sustainable reading routine. It notes that even a few minutes a day supports language, focus, empathy, curiosity and a love of lifelong learning. Programs like this help children maintain reading and language skills over the school break, motivate teens to read and discuss literature, and encourage adults to take part as well. The system also points to the five early literacy practices, reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, as daily habits that help young learners. Audiobooks, magazines, graphic novels and other formats all count.
Beyond books, the library offers arts and crafts, STEAM programs and technology classes throughout Orange County, along with special presenters including Jiggleman, the Reactory Factory: The Science of Sound and a chance to meet a Gatorland Wrangler. More information is available at ocls.org.
Press release issued by Orange County Library System:
https://ocls.org/ocls-blog/ocls-summer-reading-challenge-literacy-at-your-library/
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