Young children and families across metropolitan Boston are invited to strengthen habits of reading together at home through Raising A Reader MA’s 2012 Summer Story Time in the Park program. This free program for children ages five and younger and their families features a story read aloud using interactive reading techniques, and a related craft activity. Snacks, along with free books will be given away to children and their families in attendance so they can read together at home after the event is over.

 The schedule* for Story Times in the Park is:

• Tuesday, June 26^thstarting at 9:30 AM at Glendale Park in Everett, MA, Celebrate the Arrival of Summer
• Wednesday, June 27^th from 10:00 – 11:30 AM at Chelsea City Hall in Chelsea, MA, Celebrate the Arrival of Summer/Celebremos La Lllegada del Verano, featuring guests from the Harvard Museum of Natural History
• Saturday, June 30 starting at 9:30 AM in Glendale Park in Everett, MA, How Does Your  Garden Grow? featuring the story Our Community Garden by Barbara Pollak
• Tuesday, July 3 starting at 9:30 AM in Glendale Park in Everett, MA, World Cultures featuring the story Book Fiesta by Pat More
• Tuesday, July 3 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM at Sonny Myers Park in Revere, MA
• Tuesday, July 10 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Sonny Myers Park in Revere, MA, How Does Your Garden Grow? featuring the story Planting A Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and guests from Chelsea Community Garden
• Wednesday, July 11^th from 10:00-11:30 AM at Quigley Park in Chelsea, MA, How Does Your Garden Grow? featuring the story How Does Your Garden Grow by Lois Ehlert and guests from Chelsea Community Gardens
• Wednesday, July 18^th from 10:00-11:30 AM at Bosson Playground in Chelsea, MA, On the Farm featuring the story Little Red Hen or Barnyard Animals
• Tuesday, July 24 starting at 9:30 AM in Glendale Park in Everett, MA, Celebrate Friendship/Racial Understanding featuring the story The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
• Wednesday, July 25^th from 10:00-11:30 AM at Gerrish Park, Celebrate Friendship featuring guests from the Girl Scouts
• Saturday, July 28 starting at 9:30 AM in Glendale Park in Everett, MA featuring the story Tie Your Socks and Clap Your Feet by Stephen Kroninger
• Monday, July 30 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Sonny Myers Park in Revere, MA, Zoozical featuring the story Zoozical by Judy Sierra and Marc Brown
• Tuesday, July 31 starting at 9:30 AM at Glendale Park in Everett, MA, Wild About School featuring the story On the Way to Kindergarten by Elizabeth Schlossberg
• Wednesday, August 1^st from 10:00-11:30 AM at Mary O’Malley Park in Chelsea, MA, Zoozical featuring the story Zoozical by Judy Sierra and Marc Brown and guests from Apollinair Theater
• Tuesday, August 7 from 11:30 AM -12:30 PM at Louis Pasteur Park in Revere, MA, Beautiful Bugs featuring the story Beautiful Bugs
• Wednesday, August 8^th from 10:00-11:30 AM at Voke Park in Chelsea, MA, Beautiful Bugs featuring the story Beautiful Bugs and guests from the Museum of Science
• Tuesday, August 14 from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM at Louis Pasteur Park in Revere, MA, Wild About School featuring the story On the Way to Kindergarten by Elizabeth Schlossberg
• Wednesday, August 15^th from 10:00-11:30 AM at Chelsea City Hall in Chelsea MA, Wild About School featuring the story On the Way to Kindergarten by Elizabeth Schlossberg

All locations are subject to change. Please visit https://raisingareaderma.org for more details.

Summer Story Times in the Park is a program organized by Raising A Reader MA with funding support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Raising A Reader MA offers an evidence-based early literacy program that helps families of young children develop, practice, and maintain habits of reading together at home. Their work, which both increases access to books and offers families tools and support for strengthening the culture of reading at home, is driven by 25 years of research that shows the single most significant factor affecting a child’s lifelong success is being regularly read to by a parent or other primary adult caregiver before starting kindergarten. Raising A Reader MA’s early literacy program is delivered to nearly 600 children in Everett every year through partnerships with early childhood centers, and the Everett Public Schools.

To learn more about Story Times in the Park please visit https://raisingareaderma.org or call 617.292.BOOK (2665). Email Gretchen Kinder ([email protected]) for photo permission.

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