(Radio Iowa) – Administrators at a southwest Iowa school are promoting literacy in a new way.
A book vending machine is now installed in the media center at Clarinda’s Pre-K-6 Building. Clarinda Elementary Principal Lesley Ehlers says she worked with a local vending company to get the machine donated. It has slots for 20 different books and is inscribed on the side with the district’s literacy motto, “Readers are Leaders.” Ehlers says the school librarian selected and purchased the books using a grant of 27-hundred-50 dollars from the school’s Cardinal Fund.
Ehlers says they’ll start making the books available through the machine to 6th graders this semester, with hopes to expand the machine’s availability to other elementary grades in the future.
