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Marion Blank is a developmental psychologist and the creator of the Reading Kingdom program, the creator and former director of the A Light on Literacy program at Columbia University in New York, and most recently the creator of Comprendi, a first-of-its-kind reading system designed specifically to improve reading comprehension.
Early programs featured how to care for books, reading logs or lists, and focused on older kids and teens. [3] By 1929, summer reading programs were sometimes themed. [ 3 ] In the 1940s, professional publications began including prevention of summer reading loss as a goal of summer reading programs. [ 3 ]
The program concept involves each student getting one-on-one attention twice a week for 30 minutes as they read to a volunteer to help boost their confidence in their reading ability. Additionally, the students get to take two books home each month over the seven months the program runs each year (mid-October to mid-May), in order to make more ...
The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history.
CSLP began in 1987 with ten Minnesota regional library systems that joined together to create a theme, artwork and program ideas for libraries to use for children's programming. [2] It subsequently expanded to libraries throughout all fifty states and Washington D.C. to ensure all libraries can provide a high quality summer reading program.
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953.. The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode featured various ordinary citizens getting ensnared in a different confidence scheme.
Science Research Associates Inc. was founded in 1938 [1] with a trade and occupational focus. In 1957, it moved into individualized classroom instruction with the iconic SRA Reading Laboratory Kit, a format that they translated to mathematics, science, and social studies [1] commonly called SRA cards. [2]
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution is a 2015 book by David L. Preston and published by Oxford University Press that details the events around the Battle of the Monongahela.