COVINGTON, Ky. — The interactive reading program from Read Ready Covington expanded into its sixth neighborhood on Wednesday.

It starts with a walk through a neighborhood in search of letters. Children yell out as soon as they find letters.

It’s an adventure for kids and parents and the rules are simple.

Families get a pink passport at Covington City Hall or the Kenton County Public Library and follow the maps to begin a scavenger hunt. Once they find something, participants log it in the passport.

Read Ready Covington welcomed the families of Monte Casino as they launched the A through Z Walking Tour.

Monte Casino is the sixth neighborhood in Covington to receive a set of 26 signs and take part in the tour. The other sets are in West Latonia, Peaselburg, Austinburg, Lewisburg, and the central business district.

The director says it’s away for children to explore their neighborhood, meet friends and increase early literacy skills.

Director Mary Kay Connolly said, "If they have experiences like this, it builds curiosity, it builds problem-solving skills and it teaches them that learning is fun.”

Mother of three Angela Duncan worked with Read Ready Covington to make sure her neighborhood received this program, after taking her sons to Peaselburg neighborhood during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Duncan said, “I think it brings neighbors together because the kids can be out walking, go into each letter and meeting kids from other sides of the neighborhood that they might not have met before. And it helps the younger kids and older kids interact together to for the older ones to teach the younger ones the words.”