[Nfbnet-master-list] Fwd: Celebrate Read Across America Day with the NFB

[David Andrews]

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>March 2, 2012
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>Did you know that March 2nd is Read Across 
>America Day and Dr. Seuss' birthday? In 1998 the 
><http://www.nea.org/>National Education 
>Association began celebrating 
><http://www.readacrossamerica.org/>Read Across 
>America Day as one more way to motivate youth to 
>read! This year the National Federation of the 
>Blind is excited to announce that we are joining 
>in this celebration of the importance of 
>literacy for all children. Read Across America 
>asks everyone across the country to celebrate 
>reading and Dr Seuss on March 2nd because it’s 
>his birthday! At the NFB we are asking you to 
>celebrate by joining us on March 2nd to extol 
>the significance of literacy­especially Braille 
>literacy­by doing the following three things:
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>1. READ Dr Seuss! This is what this day is all 
>about. You can find online versions of Dr. Seuss 
>books to download in Braille at 
><http://www.bookshare.org/>Bookshare or on 
><http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate.nls?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/nls/catalog/index.html,z3950.loc.gov,7490&CI=151238>Web-Braille 
>and you can find actual Braille books at 
><http://www.seedlings.org/order.php>Seedlings or 
><http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/publications/all_books.html>National 
>Braille Press. If you read one of Whosit’s 
>favorite Dr. Seuss books, Bartholomew and the 
>Ooblek, there is a lesson in the 
><http://www.nfb.org/BELL>NFB BELL Program 
>Curriculum to 
><https://stage.nfb.org/images/nfb/Ooblek%20Lesson.doc>make your own Ooblek!
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>2. Tell us about what you are reading! Whether 
>you are reading Dr. Seuss or not, we still want 
>to hear about it. Post about it on Facebook and 
>Twitter using the hashtags #Braille and #neara12 
>(that stands for National Education Association 
>Read across America 2012). You can talk about 
>what you are reading, suggest books, ask for 
>suggestions, post about why you love Braille and 
>why it is important, or about anything else. We want to hear from you.
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>3. Send us a video of your child reading Braille 
>or show how you celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday. 
>Whosit will choose his favorites and those will 
>be posted on his Facebook page, the NFB’s 
>YouTube page, and tweeted by the NFB_Voice. Use 
>the form found at 
><http://www.nfb.org/read-across-america>www.nfb.org/read-across-america.
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>“The more that you read, the more things you 
>will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
>¯ Dr. Seuss
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>The NFB and Whosit are looking forward to 
>celebrating Read Across America and Braille with you this year!
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>Meleah H. Jensen, MS
>Education Program Assistant
>Jernigan Institute
>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
>200 East Wells Street
>at Jernigan Place
>Baltimore, MD 21230
>Phone: 410-659-9314 ext. 2418
>Fax: 410-659-5129
>Email: <mailto:mjensen at nfb.org>mjensen at nfb.org
>Web Site: <http://www.nfb.org/education>www.nfb.org/education
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