1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – Vandergrift Public Library

Goal of the program:

Introduce a fun way to encourage families to read aloud to their young children
Introduce children to a variety of books and promote early literacy so children can enter school ready to learn
Reinforce parents’ role as their child’s first teacher
Encourage families to regularly use the library for lifelong learning

Participate in one of these three ways:

Start this reading challenge on our Beanstack site:
https://vandergriftpubliclibrary.beanstack.org/reader365
If you are completing the reading challenge online through Beanstack, you will earn digital badges along the way.
Visit the library to pick up a paper reading log.
If you are completing the challenge via a paper log, be sure to come into the library with your log each time you read 100 books to collect a sticker and your next reading sheet.
Download and print the reading log for your first 100 books & register your child here.
If you are completing the challenge via a paper log, be sure to come into the library with your log each time you read 100 books to collect a sticker .

Read books to your child and record each title.
Books may be read more than once and recorded. Books read at library story times, day care centers, preschools, or by others may be counted.
When you have finished 1,000 books, you will receive a certificate and a gift. But, most important, your child will have a jumpstart on success in school.