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Campus Compact
UM program jump-starts
YMCA literacy effort
The Missoula YMCA kicked off its Y Kids Read program earlier this month, with a boost from
the UM-based Montana Campus Compact. Y Kids Read is an ongoing weekly family literacy
program designed to get children to read and get families involved.
The program runs at 11 a.m. Mondays in the YMCA's drop-in day-care center. Kathleen
Humphries, compact director, and Emily Harrington, a VISTA volunteer with the America
Reads program, have organized Y Kids Read.
UM students specializing in literacy development work in the program, offering training
about the ways through which children learn to read, developmental stages of reading and
how to recognize them, and ways to encourage children to read at those stages.
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