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Where Do These Swell Books Come From? RIF provides free books for schools and avid readers...
The following video clip (about 5 minutes) inteviews teachers from Audubon Elementary as they pick out books from the RIF Book Mini-Fair that was held recently at The Forum.
Today there are thousands of RIF projects in the fifty states and it has gone international. The local money donated from community groups is matched by the federal grant money through the Reading is Fundamental. This year the local contributors for the RIF project are Downtown Kiwanis, US Bank, and American Trust and Savings Bank. We are grateful for the generosity of these contributors. Their commitment to literacy impacts our entire community. The participating schools in the RIF project this year are Audubon, Bryant, Hoover, Irving, St. Francis, and Nativity Schools. The kindergarten and first grade children in the above schools will be offered a variety of books at three separate book distributions during the year. Preceding and following each distribution are "reading motivational activities" that reinforce the children's desire to read. Each year the Title 1 schools are selected for the book project on a rotating basis so that over time every school has an opportunity to be a part of Reading is Fundamental. Story
provided by Diane Muir,
The Forum
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Visit the RIF national Web site to learn more about this excellent program.
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Dubuque Community School District has been involved with RIF for
quite some time. Reading is Fundamental is a book ownership and
reading activity program to promote literacy for children. Mrs.
Robert McNamara and a group of citizens in Washington, D.C organized
the first RIF project in 1966. Their goal was to emphasize that
reading is fun through three opportunities during the school year
where children could choose and keep a total of three books that
interested them. Families are encouraged to be a part of the book
give away to celebrate and support the love of reading books. 
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