Volunteers foster literacy by reading to children and giving them books
toggle caption Credit: Chris Schulz/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Devan Chopra is reading to a pre-school classroom in Grafton, West Virginia. She's holding up the book Pete the Cat.
"I'm here because I really want to spread the love of reading," she said.
The high school junior came to this Head Start program at the Webster Pre School as a volunteers with the LiTEArary Society , an international group started in West Virginia that gets new picture books to preschool children to develop a love of reading.
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