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SMART Reading thanks Tualatin for grant; program serves kindergarten students at Tualatin Elementary
Summary
Representatives from SMART Reading described how the city grant supports volunteer-run literacy sessions at Tualatin Elementary, serving about 60 kindergarten students and distributing classroom and take-home books.
SMART Reading representatives told the council on Feb. 10 that the organization uses outside-agency grants and donations to run volunteer reading sessions in Title I schools and Head Start sites, and they thanked the council for a recent grant to support the program at Tualatin Elementary.
"We are in 3 kindergarten classrooms. We serve about 60 to 63 kids," Becky Bard, site coordinator at Tualatin Elementary, told the council. Bard said each child receives one or two books every month for their own collection and that the program expects each student to assemble a personal library of up…
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