{"id":129817,"date":"2026-03-04T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:47:08","slug":"middle-high-school-students-read-books-to-elementary-students-during-read-across-america-week-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129817\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle, high school students read books to elementary students during &#8220;Read Across America&#8221; week | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; This week is &#8220;Read Across America Week,&#8221; and the Allentown School District is working to promote literacy and leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, middle and high school students visited Hays and Ramos elementary schools, as well as Jackson Early Childhood Center, where they read books to the children.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to inspire a love of reading while serving as positive role models for younger learners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel great. I love reading to kids. I love interacting with our community. I love it all. I just love the nature of it. This is so fun,&#8221; said Erin Schweyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the books read today were donated to the schools by the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; This week is &#8220;Read Across America Week,&#8221; and the Allentown School District is working to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":["post-129817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}