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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Posted on behalf of Jen Maurer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">This year’s Reading is an Investment (RII) program launched in late October. Sponsored by the State Treasurer and the Oregon College Savings Plan, it aims to promote
literacy and financial education among K-5 elementary students in Oregon.<br>
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Newsroom/Pages/ViewArticle.aspx?pressReleaseID=39">
http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Newsroom/Pages/ViewArticle.aspx?pressReleaseID=39</a>
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<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Pages/default.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Pages/default.aspx</a><br>
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As part of RII, your elementary school library will receive two free books: <i>Three Cups</i> by Tony Townsley and Mark St. Germain and
<i>Spending Success</i> by Paul Nourigat. Homeschoolers and students in private elementary schools are welcome to participate, but they do not receive donated books.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><img border="0" width="136" height="201" id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CDBB58.2D23CED0" alt="Cover art for THREE CUPS"> <img border="0" width="182" height="182" id="Picture_x0020_22" src="cid:image003.png@01CDBB58.2D23CED0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">The biggest program component is encouraging kids to read or be read to, and the books should relate to money and finances. Students must read at least 3 books from
the recommended reading list, and they will track their time in increments of 20 (read-to-me kids) or 40 (independent readers) minutes. Participants may fill out a reading log up to 10 times, and each submitted log counts as an entry for the Oregon College
Savings Plan drawing. <br>
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For <b>resources</b> such as curriculum tie-ins and the recommended reading list, visit
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Pages/Teachers-and-Librarians.aspx">
http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Pages/Teachers-and-Librarians.aspx</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">The second page of the
<b>reading log</b> has a detailed <b>explanation of how to participate</b>. <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Documents/Reading%20Log.pdf">http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Documents/Reading%20Log.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">For students to be eligible for one of the fifty $500 college savings plan scholarships, their
<b>entries must be received by </b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B050">April 5, 2013</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">.
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">(<b>Did you know that the winners’ schools also receives $500?)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Need the program information in
<b>Spanish</b>? <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Documents/Reading%20Log%20Spanish%202013.pdf">
http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reading/Documents/Reading%20Log%20Spanish%202013.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">If you have any questions about Reading is an Investment, contact the Office of the State Treasurer at 503.378.4329 or
<a href="mailto:reading.investment@ost.state.or.us">reading.investment@ost.state.or.us</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Recall that <b>financial literacy is emphasized in the Oregon Social Sciences Standards</b> which were adopted in 2011.
<a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1802">http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1802</a> These are the three core financial literacy standards, which are then more specific by grade level:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:blue">Acquire the knowledge and economic reasoning skills to make sound personal financial decisions to meet long and short term goals.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:blue">Understand and apply key concepts of personal income potential, risk management, and investment.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:blue">Examine individual responsibility and the impact of decisions on personal, local, regional, national and global economies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Finally, if your school really wants to focus on financial education, an option is to try combining Reading is an Investment with Banking on Our Future.
<a href="http://www.bankingonourfuture.org/">http://www.bankingonourfuture.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <br>
Thanks,<br>
Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org">www.oslis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to Research. Research to Learn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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