St. John's SI Campus Education Honor Society to Host "Dr. Seuss Pajama Party" to Encourage Parents and Children to Read

March 31, 2011

St. John’s University’s Staten Island campus will host a "Dr. Seuss Pajama Party" on Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. for 36 Pre-K and Kindergarten aged children and their parents.

Parents will attend sessions facilitated by St. John’s University literacy specialists on ways to encourage children to read at home. The children will participate in Dr. Seuss storytelling with members of the Alpha Beta Gamma chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society. Parents and children will read together to end the evening.

All children will receive two Dr. Seuss books to take home and read with their families.

For media inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Reilly, Associate Director of Media Relations at St. John’s, at (718) 990-5789, or by e-mail to reillye@stjohns.edu.