reading
Winter Reading Challenge
by (grpl)
Submitted 10-16-2014 under
The weather outside is frightful, which makes it the perfect time to settle in with a good book. Sign up for the Winter Reading Challenge, select the number of books you are going to challenge yourself to read or listen to before the end of February...
Schuler Books to host author discussion with The Minimalists
by (Amanda Lytle)
Submitted 07-03-2014 under OPINION
Ever feel overwhelmed by the stuff you have? If you are anything like me, then you have a pile of clothes sitting next to the laundy machine waiting to be washed. There is a layer of dust on my kickbacks that should be cleaned before friends...
Reading with the Stars program encourages young readers
by (Community Liter...)
Submitted 03-21-2014 under NONPROFITS
Liz Aschwege has a passion for sharing her love of reading. Her program, Reading with the Stars, is a partnership between local college students and athletes and area elementary schools. Teams from Aquinas College, Grand Valley State University, and...
Meet the Harrison Park Media Team!
by (Harrison Park M...)
Submitted 03-07-2014 under NONPROFITS
The CYC teamed up with Harrison Park Elementary School to work with kids interested in learning about journalism. The result was the Harrison Park Media Team. Here is what the kids had to say about their group: Media Team is about sharing...
Cook Library Scholars: A pathway of opportunity
by (GAAH)
Submitted 12-10-2013 under PLACE-MATTERS
Leer este artículo en español | Read this article in Spanish Meet two special girls from the Grandville Avenue neighborhood: Rubi and Itza. Rubi is in the second grade at Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School (formerly Hall School) where...
Community Literacy Summit seeks to improve literacy in Grand Rapids
by (LiteracyCenter)
Submitted 08-19-2013 under NONPROFITS
The Literacy Center of West Michigan’s Community Literacy Initiative will host the second Community Literacy Summit on Wednesday, September 25 at the Aquinas College Performing Arts Center, 1607 Robinson Avenue. The Community Literacy...
Literacy Backpack Program links teachers, parents, students, curriculum
by (Community Liter...)
Submitted 06-20-2013 under NONPROFITS
As a kindergarten teacher, Peg Cramer saw that her students' parents always wanted to help their children learn, but they often didn't know which materials to use. She started offering them books with questions to ask their children at home...
Teacher, education liaison keeps children reading, learning at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
by (Community Liter...)
Submitted 04-18-2013 under NONPROFITS
When you're a kid, it's hard enough to miss a day of school when you're home sick with the flu or a bad cold. For children spending anywhere from a few days to a few weeks in the hospital with serious illnesses or injuries, the thought...
National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon to visit Aquinas College
by (AQContemporaryW...)
Submitted 03-12-2013 under NONPROFITS
Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series welcomes National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon to campus. A native of Baltimore, she received her M.A. in English as well as her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Brown University. She is...
Kindergarten teacher helps students read--for trophies, for fun, for life
by (Community Liter...)
Submitted 10-15-2012 under NONPROFITS
What does it take to motivate a child to read? During her first year teaching kindergarten at Zinser Elementary, teacher Mary Anne Ryan asked herself the same question when one of her students declared, "Reading is stupid." The child wasn...