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More than 600 copies of The Very Hungry Caterpillar were donated to the Wake County Public School System so that all Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten classes had a copy of the book to read to take part in Jumpstart's Read for the Record on October 8.
On that day, WCPSS's youngest readers joined other children in community centers, schools, libraries, homes, and other gathering places across the United States in Reading for the Record. The book selected for this year's reading was Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a classic that also happens to be celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Carle joined Matt Lauer and others on the NBC Today Show to read the book on Oct. 8. Events were planned across the country to highlight the reading project. Event organizers were asked to report their events to the Read for the Record website, as they sought to establish a world record for children and adults sharing in the reading of the same book on the same day.
WCPSS was given the opportunity to participate in the event this year with the generous donation of books by the Pearson Foundation. The donated books were distributed by WCPSS literacy administrators to elementary schools across the district. Elementary school principals were directed to online resources from Pearson Foundation and Jumpstart that made available classroom activities, lesson plans, certificates of participation, registration guidelines, and other materials.
In all the reading events, it was hoped more than one million children would read to find out what happened to the hungry caterpillar. You can find more about the project at the Jumpstart website.
Posted by Bill Poston at 11:08 AM on October 20, 2009 | Leave Feedback
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