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Show Schoolrx and V-M Home & J Dr. Daryl J. McCorty Executive Secretory Utoh Education Association Reading in the home Educators, parents, children and merchants have joined hands in the North Sanpete School District to work toward a splendid pair of objectives. First, they want to heighten youngsters' interest in reading. Second, they're working for more family closeness. ' It's a contest. Parents and children receive points for accomplishing various parts of the program. Among the activities outlined are such things as evening family "reading hours." A particularly audacious part of the contest is the suggestion that families "try one week without any TV at all," and that family members get all their information from reading that week. Among the responsibilities outlined for families are such activities as going together to the library to apply for cards; read-a-thons with family members pursuing books for a half-hour half-hour each night; and listening to the young student reading aloud. Parents have heavy commitments to the program. They are asked to assign topics to their children for encyclopedia research and tell bedtime stories. Dad is asked to build a bookshelf for a child's bedroom. Mom or Dad is asked to visit the youngster's school classroom. The kits themselves face such tasks as looking up ten words in the dictionary, dic-tionary, playing reading games with parents, reading the comics with other family members, and checking a book out of the school library and reading it. Teacher Larry Seeley said the home-and-schcol reading campaign is a contest, and that the families scoring the most points will receive prizes from merchants. The prizes, though, are secondary, he said. ."What's most important is drawing families closer together and motivating young people to read," he said. |