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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">This year’s Reading is an Investment (RII) program launched in late September. Sponsored by the Oregon College Savings Plan, it aims to promote literacy and financial education among
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K-5 elementary students in Oregon. Homeschoolers in that grade range are encouraged to participate, too.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C2D69B">Online entries must be received by April 30, 2014, and all mailed entries must be postmarked by April 30 and received by May 5, 2014.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">Annually, two books are highlighted in RII. This year, those are
<b><i><a href="https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/documents/038619-TIAA_Lesson_Plan1.pdf"><span style="color:#244061">Earning Excitement</span></a></i></b> by Paul Nourigat and
<b><i><a href="https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/documents/038619-TIAA_Lesson_Plan2.pdf"><span style="color:#244061">Isabel’s Car Wash</span></a></i></b> by Sheila Bair.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061"><img border="0" width="182" height="182" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEC411.0BC96840" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01CEB902.D7F93630"> <img border="0" width="162" height="209" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01CEC411.0BC96840" alt="cid:image002.png@01CEB902.D7F93630"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">The books are tied to the applicable state standards, with class activities designed around these standards. Lesson plans are available
for use in the classroom, and teachers and librarians can access them at <a href="http://www.ReadingIsAnInvestment.com">
<span style="color:#244061">www.ReadingIsAnInvestment.com</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">The biggest program component is encouraging kids to read or be read to, and the books should relate to money and finances</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">.
Children are encouraged to read at least 3 books from the <a href="https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/documents/ReadingList-for-Website.pdf">
<span style="color:#244061">recommended reading list</span></a>, and they will track their time in increments of 20 (read-to-me kids) or 40 (independent readers) minutes. Participants who submit an entry form/reading log on behalf of a child are automatically
entered into a drawing to win one of 50 Oregon College Savings Plan accounts, worth $529 each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">For entrants to be eligible for one of the $529 Oregon College Savings Plan accounts, their mailed entries must be postmarked by April
30 and received by May 5, 2014. Online entries are due no later than April 30, 2014. (Did you know that the winners’ schools also receive $500?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">Need the information and entry form in
<b>Spanish</b>? Download this PDF: <a href="https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/documents/75629_TIAA-EntryForm_Oregon-Reading-Investment-Brochure_SP.pdf">
<span style="color:#244061">https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/documents/75629_TIAA-EntryForm_Oregon-Reading-Investment-Brochure_SP.pdf</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">For more information about the Reading is an Investment program, please visit
<a href="http://www.ReadingIsAnInvestment.com"><span style="color:#244061">www.ReadingIsAnInvestment.com</span></a>. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Swetland at 503.373.1903 or
<a href="mailto:reading.investment@ost.state.or.us"><span style="color:#244061">reading.investment@ost.state.or.us</span></a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">Note that financial literacy is emphasized in the Oregon Social Sciences Standards</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">
which were adopted in 2011: <a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1802">
<span style="color:#244061">http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1802</span></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 style="font-size:12.0pt">Acquire the knowledge and economic reasoning skills to make sound personal financial decisions to meet long and short term goals.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#244061;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Understand and apply key concepts of personal income potential, risk management, and investment.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Examine individual responsibility and the impact of decisions on personal, local, regional, national and global economies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">Thanks for promoting the program through book displays, reading a book or two from the recommended reading list during storytime, announcing it on your website and via social media, including
information in newsletters, and whatever creative way you come up with.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#244061">FYI,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">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:#244061">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:#244061">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:#244061">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:#244061">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:#244061"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us"><span style="color:#244061">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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