Sentences with phrase «reading literacy campaign»

Hachette UK, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Random House have donated a selection of top children's titles to support the Get London Reading literacy campaign.

A Barnes & Noble spokesperson said, «Since B&N announced the reduced price of the Nook Simple Touch to support the Get London Reading literacy campaign, and make reading more affordable in the UK, there has been an unprecedented number of orders.

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Through its Multicultural Literacy Campaign, unveiled June 13, the Washington - based Reading Is Fundamental, or RIF, is offering literacy training for parents and caregivers and instructional resources for preschool cLiteracy Campaign, unveiled June 13, the Washington - based Reading Is Fundamental, or RIF, is offering literacy training for parents and caregivers and instructional resources for preschool cliteracy training for parents and caregivers and instructional resources for preschool children.

Get On campaign, a coalition of charities including Save the Children and the National Literacy Trust, has announced it will create a «new, consistent measurement of children's reading in primary schools», which will take into account a wider range of skills and give a more accurate picture of a child's ability.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

Before joining the Editorial Projects in Education team in 2010, Cibellis served as the public - outreach officer for Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's largest and oldest children's - literacy organization, where he conceived, organized, and executed a wide variety of public - awareness campaigns.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — September 16, 2015 — Achieve3000 donated a one - year, school - wide subscription of its patented literacy solution, KidBiz3000, as a prize for the North Carolina Department of Education's Give Five — Read Five summer reading campaign.

We hope today's report — and our ongoing literacy campaign — will go some way in building a reliable and self - improving primary school system which will ensure as many pupils as possible, regardless of social or geographic background, can read and write well.

Tennessee has also refocused and reinvested in literacy with a statewide Read to be Ready campaign, new standards with comprehensive guidance and training on teaching reading, a statewide coaching network for elementary reading teachers, and summer camps for students who are furthest behind with an investment of over $ 30 million.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

Through education programs, print and online resources, and literacy events, the Open a World of Possible campaign promotes the importance of independent reading for children and provides tools to support and sustain independent reading initiatives in our home and school communities.

As part of this campaign, IDA has begun accrediting universities that prepare their graduates to teach reading in accordance with the Structured Literacy approach.

She led the $ 15.5 million national Smarter Summers middle school literacy initiative, served on the steering committee of the Summer Matters Campaign in California, delivered technical assistance for the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and co-developed the Summer Learning Program Quality Assessment with the David P. Weikart Center.

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Today, largely thanks to a literacy campaign and public education introduced by the Communists, the problem is no longer to do with reading skills, but creating and maintaining the habit of reading.

This is primarily attributed to the sponsorship of the London Evening Standard's Get London Reading campaign, and B&N also donated 1,000 e-readers to the national literacy charity Beanstalk.

Simon and Schuster has just launched a new holiday campaign called «Give the Gift of Reading» to support local independent bookstores and Literacy Partners, whose mission is to strengthen families by empowering parents through education.

The donation is part of NOOK's recent partnership with the London Evening Standard's groundbreaking literacy campaign, Get London Reading.

Called the #ProjectReadathon Million Minutes campaign, this one week opportunity to read timed selections lets you preview great content while «earning» books that will be donated to children's and literacy groups.

The London Evening Standard has partnered with NOOK Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, to support the newspaper's literacy campaign — Get London Reading.

NOOK will donate 1,000 of its eReaders to the campaign's reading helpers trained by campaign partner and national literacy charity, Beanstalk.

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In 2004 they gave away a dozen bikes to kids, who participated in a «Read to Ride» literacy campaign with the local library.

It includes continued investment in the Play, Talk, Read campaign aimed at building early literacy skills.

The Let's Read National Early Literacy Campaign was launched in April at Lyons Early Childhood School in Canberra.