LETTERS: Y.E.L.L. GRANT FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS

To the editor:

Thank you, the many volunteers and United Way for the Y.E.L.L. grant to Rolling Readers USA, Cape Girardeau regional chapter.

Our volunteers read to children weekly and give them hardback books (by age or grade level) three times a year.

The Y.E.L.L. grant will be used for books for children in our area. The grant will provide 448 hardback books.

Published research shows that caring adults reading aloud to a child improves the child's reading skills and language skills. It also helps them develop a love of reading and of books. Increased reading aloud by parents is encouraged by the child's desire to have his very own book read aloud to him.

Thanks again for your generosity.

GAYLON SMITH, Volunteer

Rolling Readers USA

Cape Girardeau