{"id":242740,"date":"2026-04-09T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:20:08","slug":"reliant-donates-500-books-to-early-learning-centers-of-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242740\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliant donates 500 books to Early Learning Centers of Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Reliant partnered with the Early Learning Centers of Lubbock for its \u201cRead and Chill\u201d program today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program kicked off with story time and a donation of more than 500 books for the Early Learning Center to use in its classrooms. Each student also got to take one home today to encourage families to have storytime themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt expands their vocabulary, it just triggers all sorts of brain activity, then there\u2019s that social-emotional development from snuggling up with your child in your lap and just having that quiet time of reading a book with them, it just helps children grow and develop in so many different levels,\u201d Lena Scaff of the Early Learning Centers of Lubbock said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reading can also help fight the \u201csummer slide\u201d and learning loss. That\u2019s when students, mostly younger and economically disadvantaged, can lose up to two months of comprehension when they\u2019re out of school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Reliant partnered with the Early Learning Centers of Lubbock for its \u201cRead and Chill\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[92869,163,451,319,66,168,170,169,223,92868,4119],"class_list":{"0":"post-242740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-early-learning-centers-of-lubbock","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-kcbd","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-reliant","18":"tag-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}