{"id":3816,"date":"2017-03-01T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/?page_id=3816"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:06:32","slug":"education-honor-students-to-present-literacy-event-for-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/march-2017\/education-honor-students-to-present-literacy-event-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Honor Students to Present Literacy Event for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3817\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/03\/Steve_Light02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3817\" src=\"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/03\/Steve_Light02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Light<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society for education at MCC, is hosting Literacy Alive!, a program for 5-10 year olds and their parents to encourage a love of reading. This free program, open to Middlesex County residents, includes a workshop by Steve Light, author of numerous children\u2019s books such as \u201cHave You Seen My Dragon?,\u201d \u201cLucky Lazlo,\u201d and \u201cZephyr Takes Flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be held in the College Center on Saturday, March 25, from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and is followed by lunch.<\/p>\n<p>The children and their parents will attend three workshops during the morning: one by Mr. Light; a literacy session conducted by MCC students in the honor society; and a crafts program in which the children will make a project to take home. The workshops are designed to encourage reading, and also to assist parents teach literary skills to their kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program will benefit both young students and their parents,\u201d said MCC Professor Melissa Luis, the advisor to Kappa Delta Pi. \u201cOur guest, Steve Light, is not only a wonderful author and illustrator, but he is also a preschool teacher who is an expert in promoting reading to young children. It will also help parents teach reading skills to their kids. And it\u2019ll be fun as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each child will receive a copy of an autographed book by Mr. Light.<\/p>\n<p>The program is limited to the first 100 children who register through Eventbrite. To register, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/literacy\">http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/literacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society for education at MCC, is hosting Literacy Alive!, a program for 5-10 year olds and their parents to encourage a love of reading. This free program, open to Middlesex County residents, includes a workshop by Steve Light, author of numerous children\u2019s books such as \u201cHave You Seen My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":3814,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3816\/revisions\/3818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}