Strasburg Elementary Students Learn Importance of Reading
Posted on: Thursday, 9 March 2006, 00:00 CST
By CINDY HUMMEL, Correspondent
Lancaster Barnstormer mascot Cylo stopped by Strasburg Elementary School Friday to tell students they could earn tickets to a game by reading four books. Though red and yellow, furry and entertaining, Cylo cannot speak. So he brought friends from Millersville University to explain the importance of reading. "Reading is very important," university provost and Vice President Vilas Prabhu told students in kindergarten through third grade. "You can go to college." Prabhu read "The Giving Tree," by Shel Silverstein, to the young students with expression that captured their imaginations
. "That is not good," one student commented when he heard Prabhu read a part where the tree's trunk would be chopped down. Students asked and answered questions after the story was read. Prabhu told the students if they read, perhaps they could be Millersville University students someday. Millersville University has joined forces with the Barnstormers to provide the "Read with the Barnstormers" program. The program is designed to stress the importance of reading and assist school systems by promoting and rewarding reading throughout Lancaster County and parts of Lebanon and York counties. Barnstormers director of public relations Andy Frankel said the program is a way "to do our small part to encourage reading." One in four students who received a bookmark in 2005, he said, attended a game. Strasburg students gasped upon learning from Barnstormer's emcee I.M. Fun that they not only could attend a game, but also walk out onto the field in front of about 6,000 people. Schools will be invited to make banners for a parade of the young readers on the field. I.M. Fun said the school creating the largest and best banner would win an autograph party with Cylo and some of the barnstormers. University officials will be among the judges. Participating county children and their teachers will be honored at home games, including: private schools, May 17; city schools, May 18; county schools, May 23 and 24; and Teacher Appreciation Day, May 25.Source: Intelligencer Journal
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