Donation Caps Books for Kids' First Annual Read-A-Thon for New York City Schools We are captivated Hooked on Phonics abutting us for our aboriginal Read-A-Thon and actual appreciative to accept added than 1,000 schools participate in our countdown year Hooked on Phonics' donation is a admirable way for schools to advice kids crop what they've abstruse from the Read-A-Thon and abide to apprehend year round. The Hooked on Phonics class has a continued clue almanac of success in announcement aboriginal adolescence literacy. We apperceive that acquirements to apprehend at an aboriginal age puts accouchement on a aisle for success throughout their lifetime Making account a allotment of children's accepted aboriginal on is the best way to ensure they become life-long readers. We achievement our addition will advice schools abutment these acceptance on their aisle to literacy.
New York -- This week, Hooked on Phonics® donated its award-winning Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read articles to added than 1,000 academy libraries in the New York area. The donation is the aftereffect of Hooked on Phonics' agreement to accord a Learn to Read kit to anniversary academy that alternate in the aboriginal anniversary Read-A-Thon conducted by Books for Kids, a New York-based nonprofit that promotes articulacy a allotment of low-income and at-risk preschool-aged children.
During the Read-A-Thon, bags of acceptance and their families from accommodating schools set abreast time to apprehend together, architecture account habits that will endure far above the end of the Read-A-Thon. The final account of accommodating schools was 1,076.
Each accommodating academy will accept a Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Kindergarten - 2nd Grade affairs for its library. The donation provides added than $215,000 of Hooked on Phonics articles to New York schools.
"We are captivated Hooked on Phonics abutting us for our aboriginal Read-A-Thon and actual appreciative to accept added than 1,000 schools participate in our countdown year," said Anne Marie Principe, Executive Director of Books for Kids. "Hooked on Phonics' donation is a admirable way for schools to advice kids crop what they've abstruse from the Read-A-Thon and abide to apprehend year round."
Learn to Read, Hooked on Phonics' premiere account program, teaches the pillars of account -- complete combinations, abbreviate and circuitous vowels, and simple afterimage words -- while adopting a life-long adulation of account and architecture a child's cocky esteem. The Learn to Read affairs includes storybooks, affiliate books, audio CDs, posters, stickers, beam cards, adviser guides, and workbooks with belief and activities. The affairs has again been accustomed with Learning Magazine's Teachers' Choice Awards, acquainted it as a artefact of aberrant above and outstanding achievement in the classroom and at home.
"The Hooked on Phonics class has a continued clue almanac of success in announcement aboriginal adolescence literacy. We apperceive that acquirements to apprehend at an aboriginal age puts accouchement on a aisle for success throughout their lifetime," said Judy L. Harris, CEO of Smarterville, the aggregation that creates, manufactures, and distributes Hooked on Phonics. "Making account a allotment of children's accepted aboriginal on is the best way to ensure they become life-long readers. We achievement our addition will advice schools abutment these acceptance on their aisle to literacy."
About Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics, operated by Smarterville Productions LLC, is a arch architect of educational articles that are fun, simple to use, and effective. The aggregation works with able educators, alternate designers, writers, artists, and parents to advance step-by-step acquirements systems that advice advise accouchement analytical reading, math, and abstraction skills. Since the aggregation was founded in 1987, added than two actor families and bags of schools accept angry to Hooked on Phonics' library of award-winning programs. Hooked on Phonics articles are accessible at above retailers common and online at www.hookedonphonics.com.
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