{"id":16217,"date":"2020-05-26T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:48:56","slug":"30000-tennessee-students-to-receive-free-books-over-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/05\/26\/30000-tennessee-students-to-receive-free-books-over-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 Tennessee Students to Receive Free Books Over the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Governor\u2019sNashville, TN<\/strong> – Governor\u2019s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) announces its K-3rd Grade Summer Reading pilot to provide 30,000 students in Tennessee with six books, piloting a Summer Collection from Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, at no cost to families or school districts.<\/p>\n

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This summer, Governor\u2019s Early Literacy Foundation will provide 30,000 K-3rd Grade students in Tennessee with books from Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library Summer Collection, at no cost to families or school districts<\/p><\/div>\n

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All rising 1st through 3rd grade students in 33 participating school districts will receive two books delivered to their homes monthly in June, July and August.<\/p>\n

\u201cThird grade reading proficiency is a key indicator for a child\u2019s future educational success and workforce readiness,\u201d says James Pond, GELF President. \u201cThrough this pilot initiative, we hope to combat summer learning loss and strengthen early literacy in Tennessee by providing students with books and resources outside of school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also known as the \u201cSummer Slide,\u201d research shows that two to three months of reading proficiency is lost for students who do not read over the summer. Reading four to six books has the potential to stop or even reverse \u201cSummer Slide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2004, GELF has partnered with Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library and affiliates in all 95 Tennessee counties to provide books monthly to children from birth to age five, at no cost to families. GELF\u2019s K-3rd Grade Summer Reading pilot expands book delivery efforts for students in participating districts with specially-selected, age-appropriate Summer Collection books from Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library.<\/p>\n

Participating school districts were chosen based on the county\u2019s designation of \u201cdistressed\u201d or \u201cat-risk\u201d by the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development and the Tennessee Department of Education.<\/p>\n

Through this pilot, families will also receive free access to digital learning resources and activities to engage with their children around the monthly books.<\/p>\n

For more information about K-3rd Grade Summer Reading, visit the GELF website.<\/p>\n

About Governor\u2019s Early Literacy Foundation<\/h3>\n

The mission of Governor\u2019s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) is to strengthen early literacy in Tennessee by acting as a thought leader, advisor and catalyst to support and sustain early literacy programs for children statewide. These programs include Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, Storybook Trails, Book Buses, K-3rd Grade Summer Reading and Caregiver Engagement.<\/p>\n

GELF was founded in 2004 by former Governor Phil Bredesen as a public-private partnership to sustain Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library in Tennessee, giving all birth to age five children the opportunity to receive books in the mail at no cost to families. GELF has grown from solely a book-gifting program to an early literacy organization driven by a vision where all Tennessee children have access to the resources, guidance and support they need to become lifelong learners.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.GovernorsFoundation.org<\/a> or www.facebook.com\/GovEarlyLiteracyTN,<\/a> or call toll-free at 877.99.BOOKS.<\/p>\n

About Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library<\/h3>\n

Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library has become the preeminent early childhood book gifting program in the world. The flagship program of The Dollywood Foundation has mailed well over 140 million free books in Australia, Canada, The Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n

The Imagination Library mails more than 1.6 million high-quality, age-appropriate books each month to registered children from birth to age five. Dolly envisioned creating a lifelong love of reading, inspiring them to dream. The impact of the program has been widely researched and results suggest positive increases in key early childhood literacy metrics. Penguin Random House is the exclusive publisher for Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library.<\/p>\n

For more information, please visit www.imaginationlibrary.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Governor\u2019s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) announces its K-3rd Grade Summer Reading pilot to provide 30,000 students in Tennessee with six books, piloting a Summer Collection from Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, at no cost to families or school districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13038,13036,13037,549,284,8455,261,1862,886],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-dolly-parton","tag-governors-early-literacy-foundation","tag-imagination-library","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tde","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-economic-and-community-development","tag-tennessee-department-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16218,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions\/16218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}