Comments on: Disney Live! is bringing the magic of reading to a city near you http://blog.firstbook.org/2006/11/03/disney-live-is-bringing-the-magic-of-reading-to-a-city-near-you/ Giving new books to children who need them most Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan Bassill http://blog.firstbook.org/2006/11/03/disney-live-is-bringing-the-magic-of-reading-to-a-city-near-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3649 Dan Bassill Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:01:16 +0000 http://blog.firstbook.org/2006/11/03/disney-live-is-bringing-the-magic-of-reading-to-a-city-near-you/#comment-3649 It's great to see what you're doing to make books available. I encourage you to visit the Program Locator section of http://www.tutormentorconnection.org to see how we are trying to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in high poverty neighborhoods of big cities. These programs would be great distribution points for books, and for volunteers who might read and show a love of reading. Unfortunately, there are too few of these programs in most of the places where they are needed. I host a conference in Chicago every six months and blog on this topic. My blog is http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and the conference site is http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com. I hope we can connect so more kids have more books, and more mentors and tutors who model and encourage reading. Dan Bassill Tutor/Mentor Connection It’s great to see what you’re doing to make books available. I encourage you to visit the Program Locator section of http://www.tutormentorconnection.org to see how we are trying to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in high poverty neighborhoods of big cities. These programs would be great distribution points for books, and for volunteers who might read and show a love of reading. Unfortunately, there are too few of these programs in most of the places where they are needed.

I host a conference in Chicago every six months and blog on this topic. My blog is http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and the conference site is http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com. I hope we can connect so more kids have more books, and more mentors and tutors who model and encourage reading.

Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection

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