Topic: Reading Is Fundamental Inc.

What Does Your $100 Donation Buy?

The Nature Conservancy This outfit protects the lands and waters of more than 30 countries, including the United States, Indonesia, and Panama. Reading Is Fundamental This group hands out free books and runs courses that promote literacy in all 50 states. Doctors ...

Affordable Family Fun

Build a Mini Kitchen Out of Empty Boxes. Instead of paying $200 for a child-size gourmet kitchen, Joanne Fernando, an architect in New York City, made a sink and stove (with oven! Get inspired by the installations of New York interior designers ...
While some kids enter school with an understanding of more than 20,000 words, others understand fewer than 3,000, says Carol Rasco, executive director of Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's largest family literacy organization. They don't realize that ...

RIF Party Theme Ideas

RIF stands for Reading Is Fundamental. The kids can color bookmarks with the word aloha printed on. Explain that the word aloha means both "hello" and "goodbye" in Hawaiian. Read Dr. Seuss classics like "Green Eggs and Ham," "Cat in the Hat ...

RIF Needs Your Help Now!

I was shocked to learn that President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget eliminates funding for Reading is Fundamental (RIF), the largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. According to the Reading Is Fundamental Web site ...
The Art of Reading celebrates children's book art, the illustrators of children's books, and the impact of favorite childhood books on forty top illustrators. As the subtitle, Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary, suggests, The Art of Reading was ...
com Painting Guide Marion Boddy-Evans' June painting project should be of special interest to artists interested in illustrating children's books and those interested in the process of illustration. The story is provided, and as I looked at the text for each ...
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (also known as RIF) is the nation's largest nonprofit organization that supports children's literacy and promotes children's interest in reading. RIF has various programs that involve children, their parents and community members to help children ...

How to Read With Your Child

Experts in child literacy are unanimous in their belief that parents should read with their children. The power of the parent-child bond has a positive effect on a child's attitude toward reading and his ability to read. Try the suggestions below ...

RIF = Reading Is Fundamental

:If you have kids in elementary school, you may have heard them talking about children's books and something that sounds like "riff. " Actually, it's "RIF," which stands for Reading Is Fundamental, the largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization ...