WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., recognizes November as National Family Literacy Month.

National Family Literacy Month is organized by the National Center for Families Learning. This month-long observance celebrates the role that literacy programs play in empowering families. To celebrate this observance, we invite patrons to visit the library, encourage parents to read for both themselves and for their child, and to attend book clubs to discuss what they read.

Children’s first teachers are their parents and caregivers. By reading to our children, we help prepare them to be readers themselves. This also correlates to a higher number of words learned before kindergarten and higher grades. Visit your local library and meet with our children’s librarian who would be more than happy to send you home with some books to read with your child.

Here are five ways you can promote family literacy at home:

1. Set aside time each day for reading.
2. Keep books visible around the house.
3. Make regular visits to the library.
4. Read the book version of your child’s favorite movie.
5. Organize a children’s book club with friends in the neighborhood.

Celebrate family literacy with us by taking some time out of your day to read that book you have been itching to read. Don’t have a book? Then stop by the James V. Brown Library and we will make sure to send you home with a book.