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GOLD AWARD PROJECT ADDRESSES CHILD LITERACY
Elise Roy, 15 years old, of Merrimack is addressing child literacy in her Gold Award project for Girl Scouts.
MERRIMACK - Elise Roy, 15 years old, of Merrimack is addressing child literacy in her Gold Award project for Girl Scouts. Elise is a Senior Girl Scout in Troop 11128 and attends Bishop Guertin High School.
Elise Roy is reaching out in the community to provide book resources for 3rd and 4th grade classrooms and Boys/Girls Clubs. Elise has held book drives, collected used books, and bought used books from library sales. She is calling her project: "Be a Bookworm."
Miss Roy is promoting awareness to children that the first key to success in school is reading. She is aware that too often reading resources and reading support at home needs more availability and encouragement. She has gone into classrooms to donate books and impress on the children that reading is a way to adventure but also the key to success in life. She stresses the importance of reading and how it has made her successful in high school. In addition, Elise has set up a reading incentive program in the classrooms to get kids reading more, where each child sets a reading goal. She is also donating handmade crocheted bookmarks that resemble bookworms, which the children receive upon reaching their reading goal. She points out that the bookworm's tail resembles the tassel on the top of a graduation cap, and should be a constant reminder that reading is a key component to graduating from high school and college.
Elise has donated to twenty two locations in NH and beyond. In NH, she has donated to Rochester, Somersworth, Berlin, Claremont, Concord, Nashua, Manchester, Merrimack and Nashua. Out of state includes Lawrence, North Andover and Lowell Massachusetts, along with Bronx and Albany, NY, Hope Mills, NC, Ashland, KY, Biloxi, MS and Nashville, TN.
She is grateful to her donors and recipients for allowing her this opportunity to augment reading in elementary school years.
For more information or to participate call 603.496.6241.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Elise Roy donates books to Miss VandenBerg's 4th graders at Thornton's Ferry School.
