Growing Readers

DID YOU KNOW?

Learning to read should begin before your child enters Kindergarten?
The best way to encourage your child to read is for you to read to him or her?
Families who read together improve their children’s vocabulary?
Children with larger vocabularies become better readers?

Growing Readers is a free & self-paced program. It’s easy to participate – and the rewards are priceless.

HOW IT WORKS

#1 | Register your little reader by calling a branch, signing up on READsquared, or emailing growingreaders@albanypubliclibrary.org to register your little reader. We’ll make an appointment for you to pick up a Growing Readers bag. The welcome bag includes your first free book.

#2 | Track every time a book is read to your child. You can do this one of two ways:

OR, use a paper tracker. These are supplied in your Growing Readers bag. There is one tracker for every 50 books read, from the first book to the one-thousandth book. You can download and print the paper trackers from here:

Tracker #1 (books 1-50) Tracker #2 (books 51-100) Tracker #3 (books 101-150) Tracker #4 (books 151-200)

Tracker #5 (books 201-250) Tracker #6 (books 251-300) Tracker #7 (books 301-350) Tracker #8 (books 351-400)

Tracker #9 (books 401-450) Tracker #10 (books 451-500) Tracker #11 (books 501-550) Tracker #12 (books 551-600)

Tracker #13 (books 601-650) Tracker #14 (books 651-700) Tracker #15 (books 701-750) Tracker #16 (books 751-800)

Tracker #17 (books 801-850) Tracker #18 (books 851-900) Tracker #19 (books 901-950) Tracker #20 (books 951-1,000)

#3 | Earn prizes for every 100 books read.

# 4 | Complete the program by reading 1,000 books.