September
8-10 2022
The Kansas Literacy Festival is a three-day-long community event that inspires a lifelong love of reading. The festival provides literacy enrichment through targeted programs, events, and activities that encourage early learning, family engagement, access to books, and advocacy and awareness.
80% of a child's brain is formed between birth and age 3.
More than 1 in 3 American children start kindergarten without the skills they need to learn to read.
Reading, rhyming, singing, and talking influences literacy and language development.
GOALS
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Supply Kansas children with experiences and tools to inspire a lifelong love of reading.
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Provide accessible and engaging literacy programming to improve the low literacy rates of underserved Kansas youth.
3.
Offer teacher education that provides resources to use the arts to better teach literacy.
4.
Expose reading specialists, administrators, and families to diverse children's literature that will enhance learning experiences for children.
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Create a statewide community of authors, illustrators, educators, librarians, and literary and storytelling organizations that will partner to make an even greater impact with our Kansas youth.
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