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Fontana Regional Library serving Jackson, Macon and Swain counties with six public libraries in Western North Carolina |
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Reading Rover 828-488-2382 Technical & Outreach Services: Joan Lackey |
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The Reading Rover Bookmobile
See below for this month's schedule
While storyteller Margaret "Peggy" Gibby reads stories to preschoolers and leads them in learning songs/rhymes, the Rover driver, Joan Lackey, assists teachers in selecting library materials for their classrooms. At some centers the children select their own library books from the Rover. Books, puzzles, music, puppets, and storytelling kits from the Rover help teachers of young children make learning fun. Anyone with a FRL library card can check out materials from the Reading Rover. Items from the Rover can be returned to the Rover or to any FRL location.
In addition, Outreach Services Librarian, Carol Grise, offers training classes to childcare teachers, giving tips on selecting age-appropriate books for the classroom and offering assistance in using the variety of Rover puppets, storytelling kits and books for teaching pre-reading skills. Training classes are also offered to parents for teaching skills on using library materials to develop pre-reading skills at home. The Reading Rover Bookmobile visits 26 childcare centers in our service area, bringing storytime and library materials "to the door" with the purpose of strengthening pre-reading skills. The Rover is off-road in January and July. Summer Reading Program A record-setting 42 preschool classrooms completed the 2011 Summer Reading Program. A total of 2,657 books were read by childcare center classrooms completing the program. That's 755 more than in 2010!
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Each year it becomes more difficult to keep Rover on the road. Rising costs of diesel fuel and vehicle maintenance as well as the increase in the cost of library books and educational mateials cannot be met by state, local and grant funding for the Reading Rover.