Covington preschoolers through 3rd grade invited<\/p>\n
to participate in Read Ready Covington event<\/p>\n
COVINGTON, Ky. \u2013 Read Ready Covington\u2019s \u201creading challenge\u201d starts Tuesday for children in preschool through 3rd grade, and — for those who accept the challenge \u2013 there are prizes involved.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Read Across Covington Reading Challenge, which runs April 8, is a way families can read with their child using the free Footsteps2Brilliance and Clever Kids University digital apps.<\/p>\n
Mary Kay Connolly, director of Read Ready Covington \u2013 the family and community literacy initiative that\u2019s supported, in part, by the City \u2013 said both digital apps are fun learning programs that build things like vocabulary, phonological awareness\/phonics (the relationship between sound\/letter symbols), comprehension, and problem solving.<\/p>\n
Critical to that effort, she said, are the parents and older people in a child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople often think learning to read is a natural process and starts in school. Actually, the first and crucial knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about learning occur starting at birth with active encouragement and participation by the adults in a child\u2019s life,\u201d said Connolly.<\/p>\n
Covington children who are ages 3 through 3rd grade (or who are attending a childcare, education program or school located in the geographic footprint of the city), have access to the Footsteps2Brilliance and Clever Kids University digital apps, which are available in English and Spanish and can be used on any smartphone, tablet, laptop, or PC.<\/p>\n
Details of the reading challenge:<\/p>\n
\n How to participate: Read stories and songs daily \u2013 for a minimum of 75 minutes each week (about 15 minutes a day) \u2013 and complete questions and activities in Footsteps2Brilliance (for children in preschool through 3rd grade), or Clever Kids University (for children in preschool through kindergarten). Children who qualify will be entered into a weekly raffle for cool prizes.
\n Measuring of progress: Each child must use only their own Footsteps2Brilliance or Clever Kids University account. Log in and out with the secret code for each child. Parents can use their own account as well to monitor their child\u2019s progress.
\n The Rewards: Six students\u2019 names will be drawn each week of the five weeks (30 awards in all).
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The Read Ready Covington family and community literacy initiative is led by a collaboration of literacy champions across the city and region, working together so that today\u2019s young children will be tomorrow\u2019s educated and engaged citizens. For more information, see Read Ready Covington\u2019s webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n # # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Covington preschoolers through 3rd grade invited to participate in Read Ready Covington event COVINGTON, Ky. \u2013 Read Ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5774,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-press-releases","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","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=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}