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IWAKUNI, Japan - Matthew C. Perry Elementary teachers and adult volunteers took part in an official attempt to break a Guinness World Record aimed to raise awareness about literacy by reading to M.C. Perry’s 1st, 4th and 5th graders at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 19, 2015.
Points of Light, the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, Deloitte and hundreds of other organizations hope to read to the most children ever in a 24 hour period by working across time zones and continents. Read Across the Globe is an event during this literacy-awareness week that brings the power of volunteers together to impact literacy in local communities.
“Literacy is incredibly important,” said Cari Tinelli, a Speech and Language Pathologist with M.C. Perry Elementary and event coordinator. “Children who are read to more and have a higher vocabulary tend to do much better in their academics later in life. It is a big determiner of academic success.”
To help enhance student’s literacy, the official book selection for Read Across the Globe is “Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table” by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, a story of how a former basketball star transformed an empty lot into a way to feed his community.
While Farmer Allen fed his community with various produce, M.C. Perry teachers are feeding their community with education and knowledge.
“I just hope this event will inspire families to read together at home ... and to remember we are all teachers, whether we have a degree in it or we’re just parents, we all teach our children,” said Tinelli. “It’s important to interact with them during the reading, to ask them questions, point out details they might not see and to make it fun.”
The current record for most children read to in a 24 hour period is 238,620 with Read Across the Globe aiming to set the new record at 300,000.
“Breaking a record is a wonderful idea, but the actual coordinating of having children being read to is what children will talk about at the end of the day,” said Dr. Suzanne Landrum, M.C. Perry Elementary principal. “We want to be part of this movement. Being proactive and reading to our children at young ages, so that they will not only increase their reading comprehension, but enjoy reading and being read to throughout life.”
Teachers and volunteers read to students for 35 uninterrupted minutes. Those minutes were then matched to schools across the globe to hopefully beat the current record.
This is the first time M.C. Perry Elementary participated in Read Across the Globe and Landrum said even if the record is not broken, the students and facility enjoyed a great day of reading.
“When our teachers learn about an opportunity to move students forward in academics it’s motivating to them because the world is our classroom ... so we looked at this opportunity as a chance to move our students forward in awareness, growth in literacy and that enjoyment of reading,” said Landrum.
Read Across the Globe will wait for Guinness World Record to process all the data to determine whether or not they broke the record. Students laughed and learned from character Farmer Allen and Tinelli said “books can create happiness, work to expand student’s mind and bring the family together.”
| Date Taken: | 10.19.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 10.22.2015 21:10 |
| Story ID: | 179705 |
| Location: | IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, JP |
| Hometown: | SYRACUSE, NY, US |
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