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Primrose Schools
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(RORVA staff member Sarah Eichner with students from the Primrose School.)
RORVA salutes the Primrose Schools throughout metro Richmond for hosting Reach Out and Read Virginia Week book drives. Students and staff at all of the school locations in the area collected a total of 955 books.
These books have been sorted and distributed to clinics in Richmond, Petersburg and the Tazewell area of the state. |
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Support RORVA with your Ukrop's Golden Gift Certificates |
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If you shopped at Ukrop's Super Markets, Inc. last month and used your UVC card, you earned a Golden Gift Point for every $1 spent.
In early May, a Golden Gift certificate that details your household's points will be mailed to you. Please consider donating your points to RORVA to help us earn a portion of this year's $200,000 payout!
Mail your Golden Gift Certificate to:
Reach Out and Read Virginia
1742 East Parham Road
Richmond, VA 23228
The more Golden Gift Points Reach Out and Read Virginia collects, the more
youths we can serve! |
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Reach Out and Read Across the Nation |
Many of you know that RORVA is part of a national coalition.
For its 20th anniversary, the Reach Out and Read National Center has created a timeline filled with milestones in ROR's history, including the years in which each of the 35 coalitions around the nation were established.
(RORVA was born in 2000.)
To view the timeline, click here or visit ReachOutandRead.org and view the About Us page.
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Dear RORVA Friends,
We hope that along with celebrating the warmer weather and sunnier days of spring, you're finding time to read to children in your life and enjoy a few good books yourself.
RORVA is still celebrating the support many of you provided last month, during the first-ever Reach Out and Read Virginia Week, which launched on March 2, Dr. Seuss' birthday.
RORVA Book Drives held in March yielded more than 7,000 books! And we're delighted to inform you that so far, we have shared about 6,000 of these new and gently used titles with ROR doctors across the state. We sincerely thank everyone who participated!
We hope you'll continue partnering with us in the coming weeks and months by hosting book drives, making contributions and in other innovative ways.
As always, thank you for helping change young lives for the better, one book at a time.
All my best,
Sue Rockwell,
RORVA Executive Director
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~~~The Doctor's Corner(Information for medical professionals around the state who partner with RORVA to promote literacy.)
The Reach Out and Read National Center has several book specials posted at www.myROR.org in the Books/Special Offer section, including an offer of "New from Scholastic" book sets with prices as low as $2.25 per book. ROR prepaid accounts can be used for this offer!
Also visit the section for offers from other publishers and distributors. You will need to use funds other than the prepaid accounts for these, but there are some great prices.
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North Richmond dubbed a
ROR Bookend Neighborhood
RORVA co-hosted a recognition celebration last month with the Partnership for Families Northside during which ROR pediatricians serving children who live North Richmond were honored.
The doctors and their practices received official ROR Bookend Neighborhood status from RORVA and the ROR National Center, and were delighted to learn the results of a recent study that indicated significantly more parents in North Richmond area reading aloud to their children more often each week.
Awardees were:
Dr. Richard Bennett
Dr. Carolyn Boone
Dr. Addie Briggs
Dr. Robin Foster
Dr. Carla King
Dr. Lakeita Smith
Dr. Joyce Whitaker |
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RORVA Literacy Fact for April
"Young children learn a great deal when books are read aloud to them.They learn about the internal structure of stories - how they begin, different types of conflicts, and possible solutions. They sometimes learn empathy for others and see other sides to a story, such as understanding what the main character is going through (whether person or animal), be it fear, anger, or humility.(Source: ReadingRockets.org)
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Thanks for Helping Change Lives, One Book at a Time
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