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we live in a complex world computers and video screens are everywhere we are
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buried in a blizzard of images yet even in a society dominated by visual
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were surrounded by and mind to bob
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words words on paper weren't on-screen worries projected everywhere the ability
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to read is more important ever we also live in a time when almost four out of
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every ten american fourth-graders read below grade level
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wyndham reading scores twelfth graders are slipping too many kids particularly
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for low-income families face special challenges to their future success we
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live in a world awash inwards yet many of our children are strangers to books
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amber wonders that filled their cages
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far too many children live in homes where books are rare in families without
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books opportunities to develop skills and stimulate imaginations are severely
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bright futures are stifled
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of common sense and scientific research telus
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atkinson and not become more readers and without access to this books
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it also be caring adults eager to help them learn tool of books
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there's a simple truth about america's future kent be ignored
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these fundamental has devoted itself to simple but
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if you'll give kids access to books less to choose what they've read and allow
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them to all of those books
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something magical occurs
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lifelong readers are born
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each year rich brings books literacy services
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and the message of hope
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five million children and their families
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and over twenty three thousand sites nationwide
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breeds books and motivational activities to schools community centers youth clubs
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migrant camps detention facilities head start programs hospitals for ever kids
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are at risk of slipping behind
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for many children the books that we see from this
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are the only once they have to
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the only ones they can truly quality own the only ones that allotments and open
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space had become readers and explore new worlds
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only one that sent a message
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reading really can be
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we know it has an impact we hear ferraro
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parents and tell us that their children are choosing reading after free time
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we know that we have increased circulation at our lowry re-entry
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certification and someone reading club programs
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we hear from teachers to un talk about accelerated reader programs and hardly a
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probably the best testament with conference events there
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we had a kindergarten teacher he told us that on the very first day of school she
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asked her students to bring books from time to share with the rest of the clamp
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one-stop rarbg looked at her brother back from rhia ten years ago it was the
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so we know everything impact on the children in this community
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repetitive and well over two hundred fifty million books to children into
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every corner of america
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fifty million passports to worked out in the future two hundred fifty million
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opportunities to discover the joy of reading
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rick does not teach children to read but it does teach them that reading matters
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at the world of books belongs to him
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and they get their power to reading and it doesn't matter who beginning reader
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far better in return experience three it doesn't make any difference complex m
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background he's reading isn't ordinance bond and it's something that we should
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all be involved in toronto lines the message that really matters and
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communicated to family salt cell
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so works closely with parents and
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your problems lies family readers
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here to read and other special
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dorsey initiatives and build upon drinks long experience motivating children
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these programs reflect one of risk or beliefs
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children are inspired to be lifelong readers personal interactions with
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child's first best teachers our parents
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but the same principle applies to grandparents
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child care providers
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friends relatives anyone who is willing cable to share
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humanitarian with a child or encouraging
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it's a process that needs to start from the time they are infants and continued
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reports that many corporate and institutional partners to deliver a
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literacy resources and programs to kids and families
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across america both supplementing
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add complimenting is poor community-based program
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as the nation's oldest and largest children's literacy organization ref
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works at the national and local levels to raise public awareness about the
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about the role parents can play and nurturing lifelong readers within their
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own family's and tourists only work around the nation
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during its long experience in motivating children to read on it
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highly-regarded website
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parents and educators can find a host of resources activities and information
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and can't enforce ripley's planet for exciting games activities and
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interactive adventures reading is fundamental in the online world too
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videos and other resources for educators freaky literacy issues to hawaii
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and a brief conducts a series of visibility and outreach programs that
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reflect its core values
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the community meeting challenge embodies with believe
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at the entire community shares into responsibility to create nation readers
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and volunteer of the year award is an acknowledgment of the central role but
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volunteers and caring adults play hendrix programs
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in fact rick is one of the nation's largest grassroots organizations
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relying on over four hundred thirty five
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managed implement it's community-based programs it's very programs their kids
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and it's their library branded with their tax dollars and
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involved with local finding that they can't read it and say oh starting to
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matter of ambition the same way that brad
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in ownership is is one of the things that that returns with the kids
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give a little bit that and
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so much much praise come home feeling
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like you've done some good you've inspired me to some child to be there
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may be like there day after the alleged so they don't have to think about it on
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proof story everything only be told
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find millions of children and
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families lives have been touched by over two hundred fifty million blocks
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by placing books in the hands of begins
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who was not otherwise have been
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and by surrounding those kids with adults who care
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eager young readers have been born
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frame because sometimes
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you just for inside the story
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as she advised the healing on that to people
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especially advocates
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antineoplastic says government neatly
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maximo shifted who haven't been able to
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it's worth some room for him
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not to sure broke soon for the people who
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fourteen including south korean community i think people and people who
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really important is the only asked for all your life
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it's everywhere you know we decided to meet
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via post read anything
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through almost fourteen years of working in communities and every corner of
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reading is fundamental
