Programs
DCL SUMMER READING 2025
June 1st – July 31st
All ages are welcome to participate!
REGISTRATION BEGINS Sunday, June 1st
Sign up at any of our locations to pick up a game card or show you’ve registered on Beanstack to receive your free prize!
How to Play:
1. Mark one spot on your sheet every day you complete a reading activity or keep track online with Beanstack.
2. Register for Summer Reading and receive a free prize.
3. Complete 20 reading activities and earn a free book.
3. Complete 40 reading activities and earn a free book.
Reading activities include: reading (anything!), someone reading to you, and attending a library program.
Each day logged is an entry into our grand prize drawing at the end of the program (Do not return a game card if you track with Beanstack). Return game cards by Sunday, August 17th!
We’re excited to announce that this summer we’re partnering with the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry for some amazing prizes!
-Six weekly drawings for Family Four Packs to the Museum’s Charleston location.
-Six weekly drawings for Children’s Museum Mascot Toys.
-The first 700 children, ages 11 & under, to finish 40 days of reading will receive a day pass to the Museum’s St. George location.
-One Grand Prize winner will appear on Live5News’ Palmetto Life show alongside the CEO of the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry to discuss their summer reading achievements.
Dorchester County Library is partnering with Trident United Way, Berkeley County Library System, and Charleston County Public Library to promote reading to ages birth to five and improve regional literacy gaps.
- During birth to 5 age range, 90% of a child’s brain development occurs.
- 57% of Tri-County children are deemed “not ready” when starting Kindergarten.
- More than half of Tri-County third graders are not reading at grade level.
- This partnership aims to impact Tri-County children’s literacy skills beginning from birth on to the years they walk into Kindergarten so we may also impact the future skill base of our Tri-County workforce.
STEP 1:
Sign-up for this ongoing program anytime you visit the Library.
Register your child at any Dorchester County Library location or online here to get a free bag, bookmark, and book.
Keep track of the books you read with reading logs, or online with Beanstack (also available on the App Store & Google Play) and on the “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” App.
*If you previously used Survey Monkey and want to continue logging online, then please register for Beanstack. No worries though, your progress isn’t lost! Just log the number of books your child has already completed in Beanstack and continue from there (Note: Beanstack limits the number of books you can log at a time to 100, but you can just log back-to-back until you’re caught up).
Receive a sticker for every 100 books you read.
Receive a goodie bag with literacy-based activities for completing 500 books,
Let us know when you get to 1000 books for your certificate and free book!
STEP 2:
Visit the Trident United Way’s Tri-County Read United page to register for more information and resources!