{"id":367215,"date":"2010-02-26T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:33:10","slug":"read-across-america-is-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367215","title":{"rendered":"Read Across America is March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6117\" title=\"Seuss1\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/Seuss11-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/3274896\">Feitshans Academy celebrated Read Across America early this year<\/a>, serving students in the Pre-K through five Springfield school, green eggs and ham for breakfast and inviting community members in to read to students.<\/p>\n<p>The events happened Friday. Dixie McQuality, Feitshans reading teacher, said the school felt it was important to expose students to examples of success within the community. So, in addition to inviting an ever-growing list of local celebrities and business people into the school to read, they also allow students to ask them questions about their lives and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t learn how to read, you aren&#8217;t going to be able to survive in the world,&#8221; McQuality said. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t teach them now in the elementary school, then in high school and beyond, they won&#8217;t have those skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/newsroom\/announcements\/read-across-america-is-march-2\/sarah.antonacci@ieanea.org\">Let us know what you&#8217;re doing for Read Across America<\/a>. Feel free to send pictures, post comments below with your school name and what you&#8217;re doing. We&#8217;d love to hear from you. And, <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/featured\/what-are-your-plans-for-read-across-america-on-march-2\/\">if you need some ideas on what to do to celebrate,<\/a> plenty abound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feitshans Academy celebrated Read Across America early this year, serving students in the Pre-K through five Springfield school, green eggs and ham for breakfast and inviting community members in to read to students. The events happened Friday. Dixie McQuality, Feitshans reading teacher, said the school felt it was important to expose students to examples of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}