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March 2013
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INSPIRING KIDS' PASSION
FOR READING  
In This Issue
Spring Has Sprung
Student Leadership Experience
Save The Date
Seven Rules of Engagement
Double Your Impact
Scholastic Dollar Deal
Read Every Day Lead a Better Life

Book Trust is recognized as a Scholastic Literacy Champion, an organization that works every day to see that children learn to read, love to read, and have access to books.

Read Every Day Lead A Better Life
is a global literacy campaign to help kids read so they can succeed in school and in life.

Learn more here.

WE DELIVER!Stack of Books
February   
$162,460 =
64,984 books and 
926,022 bonus points

Help Us Do More 
 
DO YOU KNOW? 
 
We will serve over 25,000 students in nine states this year alone.

Since 2001 we've... 

Enabled children to choose and own over 2.3 million books.

Invested nearly $5 million in books for children in need.

Helped teachers accrue over 33 million bonus points from Scholastic.  

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First Friday Meet & Greet
Friday, April 5th
5 - 7 p.m.
Kobo Wealth Conservancy
119 Merchant Street, #610
Honolulu, HI

Join us to learn more about
Book Trust and the impact the program has on local keiki.

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BOOK DELIVERY 

 

Scholast Book Delivery Box


COLORADO

Wednesday, April 10
8:30 a.m.
Castro Elementary
845 S. Lowell Blvd.
Denver, CO

Tuesday, April 16
8:30 a.m.
Irish Elementary
515 Irish Drive
Fort Collins, CO

HAWAII

Tuesday, April 16
10:15 a.m.
Palolo Elementary
2106 10th Avenue
Honolulu, HI

If you'd like to attend any of our book deliveries, please visit our events page.
CELEBRATE

Randolph Caldecott's birthday on March 22 (1846).
This is Not My Hat
2013 Caldecott Winner:
This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen

Randolph Caldecott was a British artist whose illustrations delighted young Victorian readers. In addition to his children's books, Caldecott also illustrated novels, created humorous drawings and cartoons, and sketched Parliament. His sculptures and paintings were exhibited in the Royal Academy and art galleries. The Caldecott Medal, named in his honor, has recognized the best illustrators in children's literature since 1938.
SPRING Has Sprung!
March books
A selection of books available in Scholastic flyers this month

Daylight savings, bouncing leprechauns, green grass, snow melting...or at least, if not now, it will be just around the corner. Spring is a time for new beginnings, and so often we hear from teachers how Book Trust has created new beginnings for their students. Each month, students have the option to choose up to $7 worth of books--whatever books they want--from Scholastic Book Club flyers. For these kids, a book provides a chance to go to another world, turn over another leaf, and experience the magic inside the crisp, new pages.

Thank you for everything you do to continue to bring the joy of reading to Book Trust students. We couldn't do it without you.

El Pomar's Student Leadership Experience
Future community leaders: win-win model for all

El Pomar Students
Taylorae DeWitt ('15), Erin Mross ('14), Patton Lowell ('15) and Sarah Papke ('15, not pictured), El Pomar scholars from Colorado State University, are extremely excited and passionate about their involvement with Book Trust.

El Pomar's Student Leadership Experience (SLE) Program, founded in 1937, seeks to enhance and supplement leadership education at Colorado Leadership Alliance (CLA) schools by developing select students into action-oriented community leaders. Through experiences with and exposure to the nonprofit sector and current and future leaders, these students demonstrate an understanding of civic engagement and show a willingness and desire to continue learning and growing in the nonprofit sector.

Selecting books
Erin helps one Irish Elementary student select his books
When researching various issues affecting the state of Colorado, they knew they wanted to give back to their own Fort Collins community. They are excited to be teaming up with Book Trust to spend their year engaging with its mission of inspiring children's passion for reading and ultimately renew their own passion for life.
Save The Date
Join us in Denver for an evening sure to inspire

Vino & Libri Save the Date        
Seven Rules of Engagement
Research defines motivating factors of reading

In her article, Seven Rules of Engagement: What's Most Important to Know about Motivation to Read (2011), Linda Gambrell points out that we can do all we can to teach decoding and comprehensive reading skills, but if students are lacking motivation, they won't read. So, what does research say the motivating factors are?

Book Excitement

Students are more motivated to read when...
  1. Reading tasks and activities are related to their lives.
  2. They have access to a wide range of reading materials.
  3. They have ample opportunities to engage in sustained reading.
  4. They have opportunities to make choices about what they read and how they engage in and complete literacy tasks.
  5. They have opportunities to socially interact with others about text they are reading.
  6. They have opportunities to be successful with challenging texts.
  7. Classroom incentives reflect the value and importance of reading.    

Motivation matters. Book Trust values students' ability to have access to a wide variety of books--books that may be about their favorite basketball star or pop star or the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book--in other words books they can relate to. We believe in the power of choice. Our own research shows that when kids get to choose their own books--and own them--they read more. And we know, the more kids read, the better readers they become, setting them on a path to success!

 

Read the article from The Reading Teacher
by Linda B. Grambell here.
 

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT--TODAY!
Your gift today will make a child's tomorrow 



Now through March 24th all donations up to $8,000 made to Book Trust Oahu will be generously matched by Kobo Wealth Conservancy and Pacific Islands Construction (PIC Green Energy).

ALL Parents Can Add $1 for Kids in Need 

When you place your Scholastic Book Club orders--both online and in the print flyers--you now can donate $1 (or more) to support Book Trust. 100% of the Scholastic Order Formdonation goes to purchase new books for kids in need. Learn more here. 

A huge thank you to Scholastic Inc. for helping Book Trust reach more kids in need with new books they choose.



Book Trust's FY2012 Annual Report Available
FY12 Annual Report
The Fiscal Year 2012 Book Trust Annual Report is available for download. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the organization from July 2011 through June 2012.

Read the full report here.
 
March 2013 Book Shelf  

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