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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe children\u2019s group had an aquarium theme and were tasked with reading about two hours every week. For every 15 minutes of reading, each child was allowed to color in a fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teens went on a pirate treasure chest hunt, collecting special coins as they followed a reading map, which eventually led them to the treasure chest. The group\u2019s objective was to read for about four hours a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A scuba diving theme was assigned to the adults as they strived to read for about five hours per week, marking off a bubble when meeting their weekly goal. As all the groups reached certain levels, the library awarded them with prizes, such as gift cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, the library struggled to run its reading program, as there was not a program coordinator or director in place. This time around, a director was placed. Murr said the library\u2019s staff promoted its program on social media and their website. They also ensured that every school in the Lincoln County and Fayetteville City School systems received flyers about the FLCPL reading program, along with other schools in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The library staff held fun events almost every day to accompany the reading program that included yoga, a ventriloquist and balloon artist show, a Tennessee aquarium virtual visit, art classes, craft sessions, children\u2019s storytime, and a Titanic Museum virtual adventure. Squids were dissected as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Library assets, along with donations from a couple of organizations helped fund all the activities. By the end of the program, over 2,000 hours of reading were logged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBoosting those literacy skills was huge,\u201d Murr said. She saw the program make a difference in kids\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI know we\u2019ve had just so many parents that have come in, and they\u2019ll say, \u2018Oh my goodness Murr, my child is so excited,\u2019\u201d Murr recalled. \u201c\u2018He can\u2019t wait to read every night when we get home. He looks forward to doing this, and I\u2019ve never seen him read so much.\u2019 It\u2019s just been great to hear that what we\u2019ve been doing has given that incentive for the kids to read.\u201d GN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IF AT first you don’t succeed, try, and try again. And tried, and tried again is what Fayetteville-Lincoln County Public Library\u2019s (FLCPL) staff did with the library\u2019s summer reading program after having a turnout of about five people in the summer of 2021. It was library director Meghan Murr\u2019s first reading program since starting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-7363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-october"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/287289103_5652482088108676_887388918174919930_n-1024x683.jpg\")
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