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Reading Across the Nation: A
Chartbook
On November 1, Reach Out and
Read launched the nation's first report to track state by state daily rates
of parents reading to young children. Reading
Across the Nation: A Chartbook was prepared for ROR by the UCLA
Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities.
The report reveals that across the U.S. there is considerable variation in
rates of reported reading to young children. Highest rates were reported
for Vermont, where 68% of children between the ages of birth and five...
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ROR Awards and Honors
ROR
Awarded UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy
We are
pleased to announce that Reach Out and Read received a 2007 Confucius Prize
for Literacy, one of the five UNESCO (United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization) Literacy Prizes awarded this
year. The selection was made by the Director-General of UNESCO,
Koichiro Matsuura, on the recommendation of an international jury...
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ROR Federal Funding:
Appropriations and Authorization
Reach
Out and Read's federal funding is used to provide books to local ROR
programs like yours. We have had a busy year working on two federal funding
efforts and we need your help!
The ROR National Center is
currently working on two federal funding efforts: FY08 appropriations
(which will fund ROR's FY09 beginning next July 1) and PABA (The Prescribe
a Book Act, S. 1895), which would fund...
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Growth of Family Medicine
Reach
Out and Read was co-founded by pediatricians Barry Zuckerman, MD, and
Robert Needlman, MD, and while a majority of our medical providers today
are pediatricians, a growing number of family physicians are implementing
the ROR model of early literacy intervention in their well-child visits.
Currently, more than 6,000 family physicians and residents are
participating in ROR, approximately 15% of all ROR medical providers
throughout the country. To reach more children and families who will
benefit from the books and the anticipatory guidance that we provide, ROR
needs to reach out to...
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Book Updates
New
Titles Available in the 2007-2008 ROR Scholastic Catalog
The book options for ROR
programs keep expanding, making more quality books available at even
greater savings. The 2007-2008 Catalog has a cleaner design and a greater
selection of books in more languages. We are pleased to offer books in
French and Khmer as well as new board books in the twelve languages
previously available. The catalog cover art was taken from a wonderful new
book with special significance to ROR. Maybe a Bear Ate It! is an endearing
tale of what happens when a beloved book is temporarily lost. It is a
collaboration of two long-time friends of ROR, author Robie Harris and
illustrator Michael Emberley. Together with...
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