Read Across America Day March 2

The National Education Association’s Read Across America day is March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The goal of the NEA’s signature program, now in its thirteenth year, is to build a nation of readers. Thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers across the country participate in this national reading celebration by bringing together kids, teens, and books. The program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources year-round.

In Anna Quindlen’s essay, “How Reading Changed My Life,” that appears in EMC's Mirrors & Windows Level V, she writes,

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.…There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger.

Make sure to celebrate Read Across America by sharing a favorite book with a young person on March 2. For more information about ways to participate and activity ideas go to http://www.nea.org/readacross.