Read Ready Covington’s early literacy program is launching its sixth A-Z Walking Tour in the city’s Monte Casino neighborhood.
Kicking off on Wednesday, June 12, in Monte Casino, neighborhood kids can participate in the tour—an alphabet scavenger hunt—in a ceremony held at 2299 Benton Road.
“The A-Z Walking Tour is an authentic way to nurture curiosity, encourage problem-solving, and connect oral language to the printed word and to symbols,” Read Ready Covington Director Mary Kay Connolly said in a press release. “It’s fun. It’s a game. And the kids love it. Every time they ‘find’ a sign, they act like it’s the first time they’ve ever seen one.”
Monte Casino is the sixth neighborhood in Covington to receive a set of 26 signs and participate in the tour. The other sets of 26 are located in West Latonia, Peaselburg, Austinburg, Lewisburg and the Central Business District. Connolly said the Monte Casino tour came about at the request of neighborhood residents.
How the A-Z Walking Tour works:
- Families pick up a pink passport at the event at City Hall at 20 W. Pike St., or at the Kenton County Public Library at 502 Scott Blvd.
- Follow one of the maps in the back of the book to search for pink metal signs with words and corresponding pictures.
- Once you locate a sign, participants must write that word in their passport booklets and draw a picture of the sign. Don’t stop until you find all 26 letters.
- Participants can then turn in a completed passport to the Covington Public Library for a prize.
- Passport books for the A-Z Walking Tour will be given out, as will hot dogs and beverages.