BRADENTON – Summer has officially started for local students and many are working to address summer learning loss before returning to school in the fall. Florida Power and Light has teamed up with Anna Maria Oyster Bar’s Dive Into Reading program to help hundreds of local students prevent the "Summer Slide.“
The annual literacy program, which kicked off this week, works with students from the local title one schools to increase children’s literacy levels during summer break while enjoying a hot breakfast. FPL helped fund more than 2,500 books to be distributed to more than 550 rising second and third-grade students from all 15 title one schools in Manatee and Desoto Counties.
Manatee County Clerk of the Courts and Comptroller Angel Colonneso and her "reading buddy."
Anna Maria Oyster Bar owner and Dive Into Reading program founder Amanda Horne (left) and Dive Into Reading program volunteer Barbara Barstow (right) organize books sponsored by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to be distributed to more than 550 rising second- and third-grade students from all 15 Title I elementary schools in Manatee and DeSoto Counties.
Manatee County student Azeline Monestine (right) and Dive Into Reading program volunteer Jackson Ellis (left) read a book.
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) Area Manager Rae Dowling (right) reads a book with Manatee County student Izael Popoca (left) at the Anna Maria Oyster Bar in Ellenton.
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