Elementary students take part in Read for the Record Day ...

East and West Elementary School students in the Allamakee Community School District joined students from across the country by participating in Jumpstart’s 19th Annual Read for the Record Day, the world’s largest shared reading experience, celebrating early literacy and supporting children’s early language and social-emotional development. Each year a different book is chosen to share with students. This year, “Piper Chen Sings,” a story about managing internal butterflies when getting nervous, was shared with classes by Mrs. Traci Byrnes, a Teacher Leadership and Compensation instructor in the Allamakee Community School District. Following the reading of the story, a grade level appropriate literacy lesson relating to the story was completed in each of the classrooms. Submitted photo.