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Sale benefits newspaper education program

By admin | Published: June 3, 2012

ALTON – River Bend bibliophiles were in heaven Saturday as they perused the more than 5,000 books collected for a sale benefitting the Telegraph’s Newspapers in Education program. The inaugural book sale was held at the First United Methodist Church on Main Street from 9 a.m. until noon. Members of the community donated new and [...]

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Library corner 3-22

By admin | Published: April 1, 2012

PRINCETON — Today, Thursday, at the Princeton Public Library, the ITC Committee will meet at 4 p.m.; think Tank: From Newsstand to iPad: The History and Future of Newspapers and Magazines will take place at 6:30 p.m.; and Women’s Praise and Coffee will meet at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday, the Junior Women’s Preschool story Hour [...]

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WRCBtv.com

By admin | Published: December 28, 2011

AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) – six Flags over Georgia is encouraging kids to read. The amusement park is partnering with Discovery Education to offer free admission to K-6 students who participate in Read to Succeed, an online program that aims to encourage kids to read outside the classroom. Students who complete six hours of non-school reading [...]

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Word finder scrabble: Awesome tool meant for scrabble participants

By admin | Published: December 13, 2011

Pupils read through publications, newspapers, publications and also literature to boost their language but small do they really know that all of their labor gets into vain when they have to consult the heavy dictionaries to learn the meaning of phrases they don’t know. An intelligent scholar can easily remember as many as 1000′s words [...]

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Is Reading and Writing Still Critical to Learning?

By admin | Published: October 31, 2011

There is some feeling nowadays that reading is not as necessary as it once was. this quote is from 1940 from How to Read a Book. How many of us believe that we are presently in the same situation? after all, we have video, iPods, computers, and televisions that have taken over many of the [...]

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