Glow-in-the-dark literacy night aims to inspire students, parents to embrace reading

Ma’kenzie Nichols was hardly tall enough to reach the top of desks, let alone shelves on the wall. But that didn’t stop the first-grader from searching high and low during a vocabulary scavenger hunt.

The 5-year-old zipped from room to room at Middlebury Academy, enjoying a variety of activities intended to spur a love of the written word. Nearby, stood her older sister Ma’Kayla, herself a recent graduate of the academy. She’s now a freshman at Archbishop Hoban High School.

Both of the students were under grandma Angienette Osborne’s watchful eye at Glow-In-The-Dark Literacy Night at the charter school which serves kindergarteners through eighth-graders…

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