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They really read! Results from the worldwide Read for the Record event  Published: November, 2009

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Early Literacy Program of Orange County partnered with more than 135 schools, after-school programs, community organizations, museums and churches to read to more children as part of Jumpstart’s international Read for the Record event held last month. All partners participated by hosting on-site readings of Eric Carle’s "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to children. In 2008, nearly 700,000 readers across the globe took part in Read for the Record with 14,520 readers reported from Orange County and 6,958 of these readers were attributed to Orange County’s Early Literacy Program efforts and partnerships. This year, Orange County’s Early Literacy Program reported 25,300 readers back to Jumpstart – more than tripling last year’s number. Read for the Record is an international event designed by Jumpstart to bring children together with valued grownups in their lives to read the same book, on the same day, in communities all over the world. Orange County’s Early Literacy Program, a funded program of The Children and Families Commission of Orange County, reached out to school districts and schools, after-school programs, community organizations serving children, children’s museums and churches to connect with more families and read to more children. Partnerships included: ·     THINK Together  which read to 6,543 children ·     Anaheim Expansion Project which read to 2,338 children ·     La Habra School District which accounted for 2,130 children ·     Westminster School District which read to 1,457 children ·     Capistrano Unified School District which accounted for 1,106 children ·     Huntington Beach School District which read to 814 children ·     Centralia School District which read to 719 children ·     Westfield Main Place Mall events which accounted for 286 children ·     Reach Out & Read  clinic sites which read to 229 children ·     Pretend City Children’s Museum which read to 162 children ·     TeamOC which accounted for 83 children “Leveraging partnerships helped us to reach more families and read to more children,” said Kristen Thompson, Director of Ready to Learn Programs for the Children & Families Commission of Orange County’s Early Literacy Program. “These partnerships helped us to more than triple the number we reported to Jumpstart last year and that is phenomenal.”

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