Decorah Reads! needs volunteers

Volunteers are needed for a March session and for an April/ May session of Decorah Reads!, a partnership between the Decorah Public Library and Kris Lynch's 7th grade exploratory reading class. The program matches adult volunteers with 7th grade students for three book discussion meetings. Volunteers make a commitment to attend all three meetings in the chosen session.

Students choose a fiction book to read. Adult volunteers find their student match by selecting a book from the students' list of titles. As a pair, the volunteer and student both read the book and meet three times to discuss it.

Through the Decorah Reads! program students learn about discussing a book with another person and they also receive encouragement from their adult partner. Adult volunteers have the opportunity to revisit childhood favorites and to nourish their partners' enjoyment of reading.

Dates for the March Session are 9:00 a.m. until 9:25 a.m. Tuesday, March 16th, at the Decorah Public Library; 9:00 a.m. until 9:25 a.m. Tuesday, March 23rd, at the Decorah Public Library; and 8:55 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 30th, at Decorah Middle School (breakfast treats will be served). The March session requires 21 volunteers. Adults may pick up books at the Decorah Public Library beginning Tuesday, March 9th.

The April/May Session runs April 27th, May 4th and May 11th.

Contact Marilyn Rue at Decorah Public Library for more information or to sign up as a volunteer, (563) 382-3717.