Celebrate and support youth to love reading!

The Greensboro Free Library will be hosting a virtual check in with 2 local reading specialists on Thursday February 18th at 6:30pm. This is a moment when you will have the opportunity to ask those questions about reading and writing that you haven't asked, or didn't know who to ask. This is open to parents and educators of kids, both in school  and homeschooled, of all ages and abilities and is presented with compassion and creativity.  Presenters will offer a short presentation about child development and can speak to questions relating to reading, reluctant readers, gifted readers, reading challenges, and possible resources to support happy reading. Please let me know you are interested and I will send you the link to enter the meeting. This event is free and open to all.

Thank you to the Greensboro Association for helping to make this event possible. 

If you know some of your questions ahead of time please send them to me, Emily Purdy, Greensboro Free Library Youth Services Librarian, at greensborokids@gmail.com and I will pass them on to the presenters so they can prepare ideas tailored to your questions. 

Presenters: Judy Carpenter was a special education and early reading intervention teacher at Craftsbury Elementary School for thirty years and loves teaching reading!  She still does individual reading assessments at Craftsbury Elementary three times a year and teaches part-time at Craftsbury Saplings preschool.  She lives in Greensboro Bend.

Barbara Jacobs has a master's degree in Education and has worked with students for almost 40 years as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, and reading specialist. She has taught in several states and in Germany with the Department of Defense schools. She is currently working as a reading interventionist and teacher coach at Lakeview after 10 years in a similar position at Hardwick. She lives in Morrisville.