About ABC
Developing a love of reading as early as pre-school can ultimately affect a child’s growth and success. As a community, we need to ensure that our children enter kindergarten ready and excited to learn how to read. When a child experiences reading as part of daily family life, he or she will, in addition to enjoying time with their parents or other caregivers, have unknowingly gained important pre-reading skills. Loving interaction with a child involving literacy activities gives the child the building blocks to learn how to read.
Because early childhood literacy programs make a significant impact, preschool education is one of the best long-term investments a community can make. Early literacy programs result in:
- Higher rate of high school completion
- Reduction in special needs placement
- Reduction in in-grade retention
Making a difference in Armstrong County:
ABC promotes awareness of the importance of early literacy activities, provides books for children in Armstrong County up to age eight, and presents story hours and activities that encourage children and their caregivers to connect through reading.
Awareness Campaign
ABC promotes awareness of the importance of early childhood literacy activities to the future of our children and our county.
Book Distribution
ABC provides free books to children in Armstrong County up to age eight. In order to reach as many of them as possible, this is done through various means, including well-baby visits at doctors’ offices, participation in community events, supporting the public libraries’ early literacy program, and reading to children in preschools, kindergartens and elementary schools.
Connection through Reading
ABC provides information and opportunities to facilitate the interaction of children with their caregivers, to show that daily reading can be a fun and special time together.
To learn more about how you can help, please Contact the Armstrong County Community Foundation, or call us at 724.548.5897.
