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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Hi,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">If you offer children’s programming or services at your library, you may be interested in Reading is an Investment, a program designed to promote literacy and financial education among K-5 elementary
students in Oregon. Further explanation and details are below, but I wanted to note that there are several ways you could promote this at the public library:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:blue"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Create a display of some of the books on the recommended reading list, which was updated over the summer.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Post about the program on your website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:blue"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Have printed reading lists and/or reading logs on hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Promote the program with the homeschooling community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:blue"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Focus a storytime or two on books that deal with money or finances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jennifer Maurer
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 31, 2011 4:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Posting to OASL Listserv (<a href="mailto:oasl-all@oema.memberclicks.net">oasl-all@oema.memberclicks.net</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Elementary] Reading is an Investment Has Begun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><img border="0" width="380" height="112" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.png@01CC97E8.C49AD4F0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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 is now in full swing. 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.ost.state.or.us/Read/About.htm">http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/About.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">As part of RII, your elementary school library will receive two free books:
<i>Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun With Math and Money</i> by Amy Axelrod and <i>Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock
</i>by Sheila Bair. Homeschoolers and students in private elementary schools are welcome to participate, but they do not receive donated books.
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<img border="0" width="177" height="217" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CC97EB.56735710">
<img border="0" width="201" height="173" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CC97EB.56735710"><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 log counts as an entry for the Oregon College Savings Plan drawing.
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For <b>resources</b> such as curriculum tie-ins and the recommended reading list, visit
<a href="http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Teachers.htm">http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Teachers.htm</a>. FYI, the
<b>reading list was updated</b> this year.<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 reading log has a detailed
<b>explanation of how to participate</b>. <a href="http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Reading_Log.pdf">http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Reading_Log.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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 March 31, 2012.<br>
</b><a href="http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Register.asp">http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Register.asp</a> (<b>Did you know that the winners’ school 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.ost.state.or.us/Read/Espanol/">http://www.ost.state.or.us/Read/Espanol/</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 Nicki McMillan, Executive Assistant in 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>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Finally, in a summer Tidbits email I suggested that schools that really want to focus on financial education could try to combine Reading is an Investment with Banking on Our Future, a financial
skills program for 4<sup>th</sup> – 8<sup>th</sup> graders. If you’re interested in pursuing that, here’s information about the latter program from
<a href="http://financialbeginnings.org/youth-programs.asp">http://financialbeginnings.org/youth-programs.asp</a>: “This fun, engaging and relevant program is taught by professionals in our community who really connect with our youth around these important
topics. This free program covers four important topics listed below [budgeting, credit, accounts, and savings & investing] in a four hour program that can be scheduled to fit each teacher's needs.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks,<br>
Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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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