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We are delighted to announce our volunteer of the month for March 2023: Isabel Meadowcroft<\/strong>! Here\u2019s a message from her:<\/p>\n \u201cI fondly remember my favourite children\u2019s books – mostly because my dad was an energetic reader who delighted in animating them and because of the enduring lessons I learned from these stories. As a child I learned to read later than my peers, but I believe it was this early connection to literacy that meant I picked it up quickly once I had help, becoming an avid reader. I now take pride in supporting minibiblioPLUS<\/strong>\u2019 mission to develop early literacy skills through instilling in children a lifelong love of reading and learning. I enjoy using puppets, props, and imagination-based games to actively engage the children with the content of the book. I\u2019m delighted when, after story-time, the children initiate play based on the characters and themes from the books. Now, without prompting, the four-year-olds make predictions about what might happen in the story and ask questions about the material during the read-aloud! Most of all, I love it when the children rush to the bookshelves after story-time to pick out their favourite books to read individually. Through volunteering with minibiblioPLUS<\/strong> I\u2019ve witnessed how reading stories aloud to children encourages their problem-solving and creative skills as well as their empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isabel Meadowcroft We are delighted to announce our volunteer of the month for March 2023: Isabel Meadowcroft! Here\u2019s a message from her: \u201cI fondly remember my favourite children\u2019s books – mostly because my dad was an energetic reader who delighted in animating them and because of the enduring lessons I learned from these stories. As a child I learned to read later than my peers, but I believe it was this early connection to literacy that meant I picked it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}