The Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse to Present “The Black Stallion Literacy Project” in Seven Counties
LEXINGTON, KY (November 12, 2009) – How can Kentucky’s children become better readers? By reading about a horse, to a horse.
The Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse is partnering with The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation (BSLF) to offer the widely-acclaimed Black Stallion Literacy Project in the spring of 2010 to first and fourth graders in Fayette, Bourbon, Madison, Clark, Scott, Woodford and Jessamine Counties.
The BSLF helps children discover the joys of reading and the excitement of learning through the wonders of live horses and the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley.
The goals are to spark the imagination of first grade students so they will want to learn to read, and to motivate fourth grade students so they will experience the joy of reading. The project has been featured on ABC Nightly News as the best motivational reading program for school-aged children. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8843
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