MURFREESBORO
— Miss Tennessee
2016, Grace Burgess, made a surprise visit to MTSU’s Ann Campbell Early
Learning Center Thursday, Sept. 22, to share the joy of reading with youngsters
there as part of Tennessee's Imagination Library Week.
Burgess,
a senior at the University of Memphis and a longtime child literacy advocate,
read “Lllama Llama Red Pajama” by Anne Dewdney and “Read to Tiger” by S.J. Fore
to 3- and 4-year-olds in the “Red Room” of the center’s North Baird Lane
facility, then chatted with other children and staff members during her visit.
The ACE
Learning Center stop was part of a busy trip to several Murfreesboro schools
and childcare facilities to share stories from the Governor’s Books from Birth
Foundation and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Tennessee
celebrates Imagination Library Week each September to encourage young readers
and their parents, grandparents, older siblings and relatives to share books to
help the children develop listening and literacy skills needed for school.
Parton,
who established the Books from Birth” program for newborn to 5-year-old readers
across Tennessee in 1996, has since expanded the free monthly book mailings
across the country and into Canada and portions of the United Kingdom.
MTSU’s
ACE Learning Center provides learning environments for children with and
without developmental delays from age 15 months to kindergarten, allowing them
to play together and learn from each other. Teachers at the center plan
activities that help each child develop good communication, social, cognitive
and motor skills, and reading is a big part of every day.
For more information about the Ann Campbell Early
Learning Center and its work, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/acelearningcenter
or call 615-898-2458.
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