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Twenty-seven percent of 3rd graders in Adams County are not up to reading at grade level, and the United Way wants to change that.

As part of the the annual Day of Action, volunteers helped make literacy kits Thursday morning at the United Way office.

The kits were handed out to member agencies that deal with small children.

The United Way of Adams County hopes this helps kids have fun while reading.

Laura Hyde, with the United Way says, "The agencies will decide what they want to do with them. If the kits stay at the agency or if they send them home overnight, for a week, permanently, however they decide they want to use them."

A volunteer also donated several boxes of books that will also be donated to the member agencies to help fight illiteracy.