BUNKER HILL – This summer Smoky Hills Public Television is working with public libraries throughout central and western Kansas to conduct summer reading programs through the Share a Story project.

Share a Story helps children become better readers by inspiring adults to read to children every day. Research shows that activities like these do make a difference. Children who are read to everyday, from birth on, do better in school, become good listeners and writers, and have better language, critical and imaginative skills.

Share a Story is a 45-60 minute program geared toward children ages 2-7. Each program consists of viewing a short clip from a PBS children’s program, reading a related book and doing a simple activity. Each participant receives his or her own book and related materials. The programs begin June 1. The schedule is available at smokyhillstv.org.

The Hays event is Friday, June 3, at 2 p.m. in the Hays Public Library.

Simple, fun daily activities like reading aloud, story telling, rhyming, singing, exercise, drawing and acting, teach young children language and literacy skills – and that’s what Smoky Hills Public Television’s Share A Story is all about.

 

2016 Share A Story Schedule

June 1: 10:00am @ Spearville
10:30am @ Luray
3:00pm @ Sublette

June 3: 2:00pm @ Hays  

June 6: 10:00am @ Ashland

June 7: 10:30am @ Oakley
1:00pm   @ Claflin
2:00pm   @ Elkhart

June 8: 10:00am @ Plainville

June 9: 10:00am @ Stockton
10:30am @ Belleville
1:00pm   @ Dighton

June 10: 1:00pm @ Little River

June 13: 10:00am @ Johnson
10:00am @ Hill City
11:00am @ Great Bend
1:00pm  @ Great Bend

June 14: 10:00am @ Sterling
10:30am @ Phillipsburg
1:00pm   @ Tribune (MT)

June 15:  9:00am  @ Lenora
10:00am @ Beloit
1:00pm   @ Satanta

June 16: 10:00am @ Logan
10:15am @ Lincoln
1:00pm   @ Minneapolis
2:30pm   @ Copeland
7:00pm   @ Agra

June 17: 10:00am @ Sterling
1:00pm @ Almena

June 20: 10:30am @ Plains

June 21: 2:00pm   @ Kismet

June 23: 1:00pm   @ Leoti
1:30pm   @ Atwood

June 28: 10:00am @ Concordia
3:00pm   @ Cimarron

June 29: 10:15am @ Salina
1:00pm   @ Liberal
1:00pm   @ Bennington

June 30: 10:30pm @ Norton
2:00pm  @ Norton
2:00pm  @ Montezuma

July 5: 10:30am    @ Ellsworth

July 7: 10:00am    @ Kensington
10:30am    @ Osborne