CAPTAIN BOOK & The Good Ship Literacy

The Kiwanis Club of Greater Encinitas extends its service and outreach to children by establishing the Kiwanis Literacy Program.

Captain Book and members of his crew make a ceremony of delivering the book-filled chests to ports of learning in preschools, Kindergarten, and the primary grades to spread the gift of reading. The Captain challenges the children to read. He teasingly warns them of the consequences of failing to be good pirates, that is, keeping up with their reading. “You’ll have to walk the plank!” he tells them.

Keeping The Maties Involved In The Mission

Captain Book chooses a child to open the chest for all the crew to see. “It’s BOOKS, lads and lasses. That’s what the treasure be”, the Captain tells the children. All students become commissioned pirates and Captain Book leaves them with special pirate reading incentives, such as pirate badges, bookmarks, and a pirate’s log. In this log, they record the names of the stories and books they read.

Captain Book wants the children to think of themselves as members of the crew of the “Good Ship Literacy,” doing what good pirates do—READ BOOKS. Captain Book asks teachers and administrators to develop criteria whereby children earn books to take home and keep.

Signal The Good Ship Literacy to visit your port-of-call

• A teacher, school official or classroom sponsor can call any Kiwanis club member and make a request.
  
• Applicants will be asked to fill out a short questionnaire. The request will then be given to the KCGE Treasure Chest Site Selection committee.
  
• The committee will evaluate the request, location and details,  then respond to the request in a timely manner.

Download the request form to have Captain Book & The Treasure Chest of Literacy visit your location.

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