Comments for RIF Blog http://rifblog.org Where Book People Unite around reading, books and kids Tue, 12 May 2015 13:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 Comment on Rocking Summer Reading by Read for Success | RIF Blog http://rifblog.org/2014/08/07/rocking-summer-reading/#comment-14875 Tue, 12 May 2015 13:57:11 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2444#comment-14875 […] We asked you last summer to stay tuned for big news from RIF, and we’re ready to share. Thanks to a U.S. Department of Education Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant in 2012, we began the RIF Read for Success research study to test a model aimed at reducing summer reading loss in children from economically disadvantaged communities. The results made us cheer! […]

]]> Comment on February of Friends by Frederica sagiani http://rifblog.org/2015/02/04/february-of-friends/#comment-14874 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:48:16 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2778#comment-14874 As a former teacher and principal, I am delighted to see that RIF has stood solid on the grounds of helping students see the value of books. I am also happy to see the emphasis on friendship and not strictly love for Valentine’s day. Our kids need to be taught to love themselves, their peers/significant others and then fall in love. Good books make difficult topics easy and comfortable for all of us to engage in fruitful conversation.. Thank you and keep up good work. I would love to see a more diverse theme coverage, encouraging discussion and dissemination of the cultural diversity that surrounds us.. A celebration of our friends and neighbors is a celebration of who we are as people, as community.

]]> Comment on Trick or READ! by Sue Chehrenegar http://rifblog.org/2014/10/22/trick-or-read/#comment-14581 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:29:47 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2606#comment-14581 Adults can underscore the importance of reading to children by selecting a costume that copies the style and look of the character in a children’s book. One year I read that Family Literacy Day was going to be on November 1st, the day after Halloween.

Our company encouraged us to wear a costume on Halloween Day. I had in my closet a dress with huge printed white flowers. Since I am very short, I had never worn it. (It had been given to me by a relative.) Still, I realized that the large flowers were just the sort of thing that Ms Frizzle would have on one of her dresses.

I also had a pair of heeled sandles, into which I could slip a real white flower. I cut two flowers from the ones in our garden on Halloween morning. I took those to work, wearing my Ms Frizzle style dress. Before going to the afternoon costume party, I put a flower in each of my shoes.

I was not sure that everyone would know that I was supposed to be Ms. Frizzle. Yet that was not my biggest concern. I wanted to encourage literacy. Consequently, I pinned to my dress a small sign that said “Family Literacy Day, November 1st.”

]]> Comment on In Memory by Carol Hampton Rasco http://rifblog.org/2014/10/07/in-memory/#comment-14520 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:27:15 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2597#comment-14520 What an honor to Loretta that you will mention this wonderful lady to the RIF program there. Thank you!

]]> Comment on In Memory by Sheri Steinemann http://rifblog.org/2014/10/07/in-memory/#comment-14507 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:08:22 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2597#comment-14507 I work for a school called KCAA (Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy), in Denver Colorado. I have been the RIF cordinator for the past 4 years. I will do my best to mention her name to the staff/children of KCAA that receive RIF books for k-5th grades on Nov.20th -21st. I am so very thankful for the RIF program for this 92 % low income school. Reading a real book will never replace an ipad to me but I understand that book reading in the future will need to go more electronic to help save trees!

]]> Comment on In Memory by Carol Hampton Rasco http://rifblog.org/2014/10/07/in-memory/#comment-14506 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:37:11 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2597#comment-14506 Loretta Barrett was a great friend to me personally. She was a Board member who was always willing to do “whatever it took.” I remember the last time before she became ill when I called her to help by attending a meeting with me in New York City; she said she would be there before the 10 AM start time. When she walked in with her suitcase, I asked where she was headed after the meeting…she replied she had just returned from the west coast on the red eye…what dedication! We all used to marvel at all Loretta was doing, still skiing strong in Europe in the last three years…and oh, how she was always pushing for better books for children. Children in America who will never know the name Loretta Barrett reaped benefits from her, we shall miss her.

]]> Comment on Rocking Summer Reading by Kentucky Creativity | RIF Blog http://rifblog.org/2014/08/07/rocking-summer-reading/#comment-14477 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:52:19 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2444#comment-14477 […] of whom qualify for free and reduced lunches, and is one of the 173 schools participating in our Summer Reading Success program. Through partnerships with the local 4-H and the University of Kentucky, Southside students […]

]]> Comment on Farewell by Mark Condon http://rifblog.org/2014/08/26/farewell/#comment-14001 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:49:18 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=2532#comment-14001 Mr. White was himself fundamental in establishing RIF, making a huge contribution to the efforts of all literacy advocates. His vision helped lead others to embrace and support those who needed it most.
Unite for Literacy joins with RIF in our gratitude for his service to the world.

Mark Condon
Vice President
Unite for Literacy

]]> Comment on The Song by Katelyn http://rifblog.org/2012/04/20/bpu-lyrics/#comment-13822 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:24:11 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=94#comment-13822 I love this song and better yet I LOVE to read(: I think this is amazing and I hope it will help inspire my two younger brothers who are 8 and 10 to read as well(:

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