Project Description Country: USA Location: San Diego Total Budget: $500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Reading books will be provided to low income children in Title 1 schools in San Diego Unified School District. Research indicates that children learn to read from grades Kindergarten through 3rd (9 years old); after that school curriculum is designed for children to read to learn. Children whose reading skills are not up to grade level by 3rd grade will struggle through the rest of their academic career. One way to improve reading skills is to read aloud to children at school and at home. Providing children with sturdy, colorful reading books at their level of reading and allowing them to take them home and read them to their parents and siblings has proven to make a difference in reading ability and in reading scores on state testing. Our club will provide third graders with reading books for them to keep. They will receive them from a Rotarian who will read aloud to them and then present them with the book. Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: Mission Valley-Sunset, San Diego Primary Contact: Marge Cole Email: margecole81@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Mission Valley-Sunset, San Diego (5340) 31-Aug-13 $250 $250 $500 Total $250 $250 $500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [31-Mar-14] Book cover for The Secret Message [31-Mar-14] Cover of reading book selected [31-Mar-14] Final Report Doc. [31-Mar-14] Rolling Readers receipt for Book Purchase

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History Log Entries 31-Aug-13 System Entry Creation of project page. 1-Sep-13 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 1-Sep-13 System Entry Project signed by Marge Cole. 5-Sep-13 System Entry Project signed by Adam Porter. 12-Sep-13 System Entry Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 11-Nov-13 System Entry Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 1-Apr-14 System Entry Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 1-Apr-14 System Entry Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.