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superhero activities
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“Access to books and educational material is the single biggest barrier to literacy development in the United States and beyond. If we can solve the problem of access, we will be well on the road to realizing educational parity – a goal which has eluded this country for generations.”
- Susan B. Neuman, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ctr. for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
(firstbook.org) |
Ideas for Creating Superheroes In Your Community!
Collect
- Books for a library bookmobile
- Books and set up a library in low-income neighborhoods
- Books and toys, decorate, and deliver a “Birthday Box” to a homeless shelter
- Canned food and ask businesses to contribute 10 cents per pound for a “book bank”
Raise money for books for needy kids
- Hold a carnival
- Hold an auction
- Hold a bake sale
- Organize a car wash
- Have a spaghetti dinner at a church
- Organize a flea market
- Ask groups, like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, seniors, or a church to help
- Organize a “penny-a-page” readathon
- Sell snow cones at a high school sports event
- Sell your own cookbooks
Read to
- Seniors at a nursing home
- Sick people at the hospital
- The blind
- Younger children
Volunteer
- In your community library
- In your school library
- To work at a book sale at a church, school, library or other places
Ask a...
- Bookstore if you can team up with a community project
- Bookstore if they will help you organize a book sale
- Bookstore if they will donate books for needy kids
- Church if you can team with the thrift shop
- Hospital if you can help “candy stripers” with the book cart
- Library if you can rake leaves, weed, and plant flowers
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