Reading Day was held at the YMCA of Greater Boston in East Boston to help celebrate 'Read Across America Week.'Photo: YMCA Greater Boston
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The YMCA of Greater Boston is helping celebrate 'Read Across America Week,' a nationwide annual event the National Education Association launched in 1998.
The event is designed to promote the joy of reading for kids and adults and instill in people of all ages a love of books.
At YMCAs in and around Boston, literacy activities were held on March 3 to encourage reading.
Bexi Perez is the YMCA's Senior Association Director for Youth Development.
She said guests from all walks of life and different areas of expertise were invited to come to a YMCA and read to kids from pre-school to 13. "This is important because we want to promote literacy," she said. "It's very important for children to learn and love reading. It helps them with their creativity, learn about the world in different ways, and also learn how to enhance their brain development."
The NEA said events that support Read Across America Week help build literacy skills while developing lifelong readers.
Read Across America Week runs March 2-6.
WBZ NewsRadio's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.