The last few days before vacation were very exciting for students at Hinesburg Community School, in kindergarten through fourth grade! Each classroom had a special opportunity to go “book shopping” and take home a brand new book! There were selections from “Elephant and Piggie”, to “The Last Stop on Market Street”, “Pete the Cat”, and so many more wonderful titles.
This second annual “Build Your Own Library” event is an effort to support building students’ home libraries. According to a 2014 study in the sociology journal, Social Forces, the quantity of books in a person’s home was the most important predictor of reading performance. “The researchers measured the impact of the size of home libraries on the reading level of 15-year-old students across 42 nations, controlling for wealth, parents’ education and occupations, gender and the country’s gross national product.” Findings revealed greatest effect to be in home libraries of about 100 books, which resulted in approximately 1.5 extra years of grade-level reading performance.
Hooray for these new books!
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