Reading Solutions – August 2018
READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY? When asking a bibliophile to recommend a summer read be prepared with a pencil, paper and lots of time. I’ve been casually surveying CRA volunteers and Branigan, Munson and Sage librarians for just a few weeks and have garnered enough tantalizing suggestions to keep a nightstand stacked for a year. […]
Reading Solutions – July 2018
Read a Book, Change a Life What’s so great about reading in the summer? For starters, reading is a low cost activity that can be done almost anywhere. Books take us on vacations even if we can’t physically get away. When we do travel stories drive off the boredom of long waits and tedious journeys. […]
Reading Solutions – June 2018
How are the children doing? The morning starts joyfully with twenty-five volunteers sipping coffee and eating snacks in a cheery room. Each one has been serving as a Reading Buddy to a second grader in one of six different elementary schools. These people are not teachers or tutors; instead they see themselves as friends with […]
Reading Solutions – May 2018
Making the Choice Makes the Difference Meet Sofi Carreon, age 11, an avid reader with a passion for sharing her books. For her tenth birthday, Sofi asked her party guests to donate books instead of giving her presents. “My friends were kind of shocked that I didn’t want presents, they thought I didn’t do it […]