Director of Early Childhood Education Nancy Hanna presented at Lewisburg Rotary this week. She is on the Greenbrier Board of Education and spoke about the Campaign for Grade Level Reading. She reminded Rotarians that children need to be read to and talked to; and that there is a huge deficit in the number of words children of poverty are exposed to in comparison with children not in poverty. She explained that the lottery of the zip code a child is born into can limit access to libraries and after school activities that would expose them to words by reading or listening.
