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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2017 - 2018
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 9, 2017 03:42 PM |
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| From: | Representative Vanessa Lowery Brown |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Summer Reading Games 2017 |
| In the very near future, I will be introducing a resolution to recognize Pennsylvania’s libraries for offering summer reading programs, to encourage youths to participate in these programs and to recommend that parents support and promote reading during the summer months. This resolution also urges legislators and community leaders alike to assist with summer reading programs and, most importantly, designates the months of June, July and August of 2017 as “Summer Reading Games 2017” in Pennsylvania. Studies commissioned by Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that disadvantaged youth fall significantly behind other students because of a lack of access to reading materials and a lack of encouragement in the home to participate in reading. This lack of reading outside of the school year consequently results in achievement gaps not only academically, but also later in life. Communities that offer summer reading programs encourage our youth to develop reading as a lifelong habit. These programs also draw in reluctant readers through other related activities and help to ensure that children, particularly those in disadvantaged homes, read over the course of the summer to maintain and enhance their reading skills. Additionally, these programs serve to generate interest in libraries and the myriad services that they offer. Therefore, I would like to encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to please join me promoting this very important initiative. |
Introduced as HR406