Long Beach Kids Celebrate 'Read Across America Day'

In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, motivating role models recently read to kindergarten and first-grade students at Lindell Elementary School.

Read Across America Day brought young minds together throughout the nation in a celebration of learning and literacy. Fourth- and fifth-grade members of the student council and Golden Rules after-school club selected various pieces of Dr. Seuss’s written works, which they shared with their younger peers. The volunteers each visited assigned classrooms and brought the books to life for their audiences. As a special treat, club members provided each child with a handmade bookmark inscribed with a poem that encouraged them to “feed their brains” by reading every day.

Reading and writing are primary areas of focus throughout the district’s curricula, and activities such as these promote literacy in creative ways for children of all ages. The group reading exercise also supported aspects of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile, which identifies the attributes that are desired within students and that Long Beach schools are working to cultivate in its students.

Submitted by Long Beach Schools