Not only can Read On participants receive fun prizes for their efforts, but the most dedicated readers are awarded with scholarship funds, left, and letters of congratulations from program benefactors Lawrence Amaturo and Guy Fieri, right.
fun at camp, likes to hang out with her family and go on trips. When asked if she has always liked reading, Lily quickly responds with, “No, I always really like to do art.” “I tried my hardest to double my goal in Read On, Sonoma,” Lily says. “My reading teacher kind of helped me out with that, and I just started reading a lot.” “I like to read the Magic Tree House books,” Lily says about Mary Pope Osborne’s series about siblings whose back yard tree house transports them to various times in history. “I really like that they go out on so many different adventures and they learn about so many different facts about the world and about different places.” “The program is perfect for those students who haven’t found the intrinsic love of reading yet,” says Emily Todd, principal of Riebli Elementary School. “It provides that extrinsic motivation to help students want to read, especially those struggling students where you would do everything you could to get them to enjoy a book.”
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