A program aimed at helping children improve their reading and writing is expanding.
Early Literacy Stations are now available at Blenheim and Ridgetown Branches of Chatham-Kent Public Library, thanks to financial support from the Hydro One Community Benefits Fund through Councillors Amy Finn, Alysson Storey, Morena McDonald, and Conor Allin.
Early Literacy Stations are child-friendly computers with child-sized keyboards and mice that provide safe, interactive, and educational digital learning without accessing the internet. Each station comes loaded with French and English educational games that foster foundational literacy and math skills such as letter and number recognition, phonics, rhyming and storytelling.
The stations are set up on accessible tables, so patrons can easily access the computers at heights suitable to them, and is available on a first come, first-served basis during regular library hours.
The Hydro One Community Benefits Fund supports capital assets and provides financial assistance to individuals, community groups or not-for-profit projects that address a community need.
