Displaying LINC Initiatives about: Literacy
Start your reading engines, kids. The Kansas City Public Library and the Mid-Continent Public Library are stocking up again at neighborhood branches near you with adventurous, beautiful themes — and prizes — to inspire summer reading.
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LINC prepares again to give away high-quality, inclusive children’s books as part of the annual Lights On Afterschool celebrations. “I love new books,” says LINC’s Edina von Hofman. “They give you a sense of feeling special.”
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We are happy to share LINC in Photos 2019 – a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community.
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Turn the Page KC’s Summer Reading Splash at the Sprint Center thrilled 2,000 children with new books, while outgoing Mayor Sly James took stock of the work still to be done as Kansas City chases its goal of every child reading at grade level by the third grade.
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We are happy to share LINC in Photos 2018 -- a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community. We look back on the year with pride in the accomplishments of our community and gratitude for the opportunity to be a part of the work. We wish you all the best for the year ahead. Happy holidays!
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The 2018 LitUp Festival will be held on May 12th at the North Independence Branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library in Independence, Missouri. It will be an all-day event that features nationally known authors and illustrators and includes panel discussions, writing and illustrating clinics, a writing contest, a poetry slam, music and food trucks!
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The Reading Rocket is an early literacy mobile unit that serves children within the Mid-Continent Public Library district that have limited access to early literacy resources due to transportation or economic challenges.
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We are happy to share this year's LINC in Photos -- a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community.
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Jonathan Fenske is the author and illustrator of “Barnacle is Bored”. He spoke with the students at Troost Elementary in the Kansas City Public Schools about the enjoyment of writing and drawing.
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Major thought leaders on the challenges of digital inclusion met in Kansas City in late May to explore issues to improve connectivity and public access in our community.
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We are happy to share this year's LINC in Photos — a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community. LINC in Photos 2015 is dedicated to LINC Chairman Emeritus Landon Rowland, who passed away on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015.
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LINC Caring Communities sites will receive 80,000 books. This is LINC's fourth book distribution in partnership with FirstBook.
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Barbershops: another place where Kansas City is working to gets adults reading to children and books in kids' hands. Turn the Page KC, the Kansas City Public Library and LINC are cooperating to get men to reach out to kids by making free books available at several urban barbershops.
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Watch our video about the process of preparing 35,000 books for delivery to students this summer. Community volunteers and several organizations have helped to make this year's distribution a success.
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We again are happy to share this year’s version of LINC in Photos – a montage of images which visually share our impact and presence in the community.
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With a goal of providing books to students, LINC and Genesis Promise Academy staff work to provide book fairs to students and families throughout the year. All students are invited to participate in the book fairs.
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Turn the Page KC and Mayor Sly James hosted a community conversation on August 25th aimed at advancing the “Talk, Read, Play with Your Child Every Day” campaign.
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Students in the LINC Summer School program at Attucks Elementary in the Kansas City Public Schools had a special reading event with Mayor Sly James from the City of Kansas City, Missouri.
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LINC distributed 27,000 books, one for every elementary student in the Center, Fort Osage, Grandview, Hickman Mills, Independence, and Kansas City school districts, along with select North Kansas City schools and two charter schools.
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LINC and Turn the Page KC staff along with Americorps Vista volunteers are working hard to prepare and process over 27,000 books for distribution to students around Kansas City.
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