1000 Basics
This is the age a child can start participating in the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge.
What is birth? (Any age before entering kindergarten!)
Reading aloud to your child is known to spark these two mental traits.
What are creativity and imagination?
When a family signs up via Beanstack, they automatically earn their very first digital version of this tracking reward.
What is a Registration Badge?
If a toddler demands to hear Green Eggs and Ham five times in one afternoon, how many times can the parent log it?
What is 5 times? (Repetition is key to early literacy, and repeats always count!)
The program emphasizes that whether your child is a baby or a toddler, there is no better time to do this.
What is "start now"?
Every time you read a book together, you give your child the gifts of language, vocabulary, and these essential skills.
What are pre-reading skills for kindergarten?
AZRLS serves these six Georgia counties.
What is Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam, and Walton counties?
To keep children motivated, families should bring their logs or app into the library to be recognized every time they hit a milestone of this many books.
What is every 100 books?
If a family reads exactly one book per night, it will take them a little less than this many years to hit the 1,000-book goal.
What is 3 years? (365 x 3 = 1,095 books)
In addition to building skills, reading aloud is described as a wonderful way to do this with your child.
What is bond?
True or False: If a child listens to a digital audiobook or reads a book on a tablet, it does not count toward their 1,000-book total.
False (All formats, including audiobooks and e-books, count).
According to early literacy data, a toddler's brain develops most rapidly before this specific age.
What is age three?
When a parent logs into Beanstack for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, they can use the exact same account info to simultaneously link their child to this annual AZRLS system event.
What is the Summer Reading Program?
Upon officially completing the 1,000-book challenge, the child is awarded this to celebrate.
What is a certificate of completion, recognition at city council meeting, recognition on social media, and personalized READ Poster.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, roughly this fraction of children enter kindergarten lacking the language skills necessary to learn to read.
What is one-third (or 1 in 5 depending on the localized study group)?
REWORD: To make milestone achievements public and celebrate our community's children, libraries are encouraged to display the child’s name here.
What is on the library's Milestone Wall (or display board)?