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Contact our Office Manager at officemanager@ready4reading.org or call 864-250-8868. We will respond to your message promptly. Note: Ready 4 Reading formerly known as Lapsits for Early Literacy.
Dining With Authors
To Benefit Ready 4 Reading
November 11, 2010
Embassy Suites
670 Verdae Boulevard
6:00-7:30 Reception and Silent Auction
7:30-9:00 Dinner
Meet Local Authors
- Linda Kelly
- Ray Blackston
- Melinda Long
- Kate Salley
- Tim Davis
- Gene Fehler
- Michael P. Gibson
- Shirley Twiss
- Michael Cogdill
- Jean Hunt
- Mindy Friddle
- Dot Jackson
Book Signing Sponsored by Fiction Addiction
TICKETS $50
Cash Bar
Business Attire
Mail order tickets on sale now.
Send payments via check to:
Ready 4 Reading
P.O. Box 6684
Greenville, SC 29606
(be sure to include return address)
To Donate an Auction items: 864-250-8868
Family Fun Event #4 – Raising A Reader
Pleasant Valley Head Start
The last Family Fun Event was held for the families and children of Pleasant Valley Head Start Raising A Reader program on April 22, 2010. The event was held at the Ramsey Family Branch of the Greenville County Public Library on Lydia Street.
The families enjoyed a pizza dinner, a performance by the children, a story time provided by the Youth Services Librarian, and awards ceremony. Each child received their own blue bookbag and certificate for their participation in the Raising A Reader program this year.
Family Fun Event #3 at Golden Rule Child Development Center in Simpsonville
Parents met to see their children perform and to learn about storybooks and concept books. The eveing started with a pizza dinner and then the children performed wonderfully for the gathered parents. Susan Kear, Program Director for Ready 4 Reading led a discussion about story books and concept books and the importance of sharing them with young children. Ms. Madden, the Director of GRCDC confirmed that it is important to help children learn about rhyming words and Ms. Kear gave some suggestions for ways to make rhyming words fun for the whole family.
Family Fun Event – Raising A Reader
The last Family Fun Event for the three-year-old class at Simpson Head Start in Easley, SC was held at the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Over fifty people attended the pizza dinner and awards ceremony. The children performed to the delight of their parents and each child received their special blue book bag and certificate for having participated in the Raising A Reader program this year.
The Raising A Reader program in Easley was financed by the Easley Rotary Club. It is a circulating book bag program that sends four new books home each week for twenty weeks. During this time parents are invited to attend four sessions to learn about reading with young children. The last session is held at the County Library near the Head Start Center and gives the families an opportunity to learn about available resources and for the Youth Services Librarian to provide a story time for the children. This is the first year for this program in this area of South Carolina and Ready 4 Reading is the provider of Raising A Reader. The program is off to a great start and Ready 4 Reading is planning on expanding to other centers next year in partnership with United Way, SHARE Head Start, local Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs.
For more information about the Raising A Reader program please contact the office at 864-250-8868 or by email at info@ready4reading.org.
Reading by 8 Hosted Prominent Educator David Boulton for Series of Events on March 22-23
For more information about the events…
http://www.greenvillehd.com/greenville-sc-schools/Reading-By-8/
David Boulton, a learning-activist, technologist, author, and public speaker, will be presenting his platform for ‘turning up the learning’ at a series of events March 22-23, 2010, hosted by the Reading By 8 Project in Greenville, South Carolina.
Mr. Boulton is the president of Learning Stewards, a non-profit organization, and is the director of the Children of the Code Project. He is well-known by educators for his work on the societal and emotional effects of learning difficulties.
In his Greenville presentations and discussions, Mr. Boulton drew on The New Science of Learning public television special and his work on the Children of the Code Project to connect the dots between ‘turning up the learning’ and improving the health and development of individuals, families, communities, schools, businesses, workforces, and our overall economy.
David Bolton has recently posted the following videos filmed in Greenville to the project he directs, The Children of the Code.
COTC: GREENVILLE – READING BY 8: In March, David Boulton, Director of the COTC project, gave a series of presentations (United Way , Rotary International, Greenville University , Greenville Library, YWCA, and others) in Greenville, S.C.. Half the events were video recorded by Greenville HD and the other half by SCETV the local PBS station. Greenville HD produced a short video that includes excerpts from David’s presentations as well as comments from some of the organizers and attendees of the events. The video is available for viewing at the top of the”Events” page on the COTC site:
“COTC: Reading by 8:” http://www.childrenofthecode.org/workshops/index.htm#greenville
MIND-SHAME: SCETV, the local PBS station for Greenville, S.C., is creating a program for release this summer that will feature an interview with David Boulton as well as clips from his Greenville presentations. An excerpt taken from the interview in which David talks about “Mind-Shame” is available for viewing at the bottom of the “Events” page on the COTC site:
“Mind-Shame”: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/workshops/index.htm#presenter
As with all our videos these videos can be freely shared and embedded in your non-profit or public education courses, websites, blogs, Facebook pages, newsletters, and emails. Please continue to share our project’s resources with your colleagues and friends.
Annual Early Language “Cat in the Hat” Fifth Annual Celebration
Greenville, SC – Join us at our FREE Annual Early Language Cat in the Hat Fun Day again this year to celebrate reading and our agency’s name change to Ready 4 Reading (formerly Lapsits for Early Literacy).
Where and When: 10 a.m.–noon Saturday, March 6, throughout McAlister Square, 225 South Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, SC.
What: The Cat in the Hat event features 25 fun-filled stations hosted by Ready 4 Reading educators and community agencies such as Head Start, the Greenville County Library, and the USC Teach Program, who present parents with no-cost or low-cost ways to provide home reading awareness. Activities include interactive games, songs, stories, puppet shows, and finger plays designed for children aged one to five. Each family receives a new book in English or Spanish along with donated gently-used books to build home libraries.
Who: Each year 1,000+ families and children attend. More than 130 volunteers serve in making the event successful. Volunteers are needed on shifts Friday from 4–8:00 pm and Saturday from 8 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Why: Giving parents the skills to make reading fun at home and ensuring that very young underserved children have access to books is the goal of Ready 4 Reading.
Ready 4 Reading, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, guides underserved parents and caregivers of primarily newborns through four-year-olds to create a love of books, develop readiness for reading, and provide children’s books in homes.
Contact: Carolyn Beckie, CAT Event Chair, 879-3839. Or the organization’s office at 250-8868. Last year’s event can be viewed at www.ready4reading.org.
Announcing Raising a Reader®–Ready 4 Reading’s Signature Program
Shared Goals
The Raising A Reader® mission is to foster healthy brain development, parent-child bonding and early literacy skills critical for school success by engaging parents in a routine of daily “book cuddling” with their children from birth to age five. This mission addresses a national need for effective early literacy programs. One in three children entering kindergarten lacks basic pre-reading skills, which are proven to be a key factor in determining high-school graduation and lifelong success. Ready 4 Reading’s mission is identical.
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