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On your bookmark, get set…CSULA students rev up for Read Across America parties
To celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday, EPIC students
take puzzles, relays, fun to five local elementary schools
Los Angeles, CA – Horton Hears a Who! And of a party or two! With gobs to read and jobs to do. You’re ‘specially invited, too.
Oh, yes! Teams of Cal State L.A. students will celebrate Dr. Seuss’ 105th Birthday on three consecutive Fridays—Feb. 27, Mar. 6 and Mar. 13—by showing how much fun reading can be to schoolchildren at five local elementary schools: Ann Street, Hammel, Huntington Drive, Kennedy, and 99th Street Schools (see listing below for times and locations).
The visits are part of the National Education Association (NEA)’s Read Across America festivities.
The elementary children will be treated to exciting hands-on activities encouraging them to read, such as a Dr. Seuss mind field, math puzzle, reading relay race, and more.
In addition, Cal State L.A.’s administrators will don red-and-white stovepipe hats at four of the schools to present readings of I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Throughout the year, 35 Cal State L.A. students tutor more than 350 children at the five local schools through the University’s EPIC (for Educational Participation in Communities) America Reads and Counts program.
Begun in 1998 to promote reading and literacy while celebrating the March 2, 1904, birthday of Dr. Seuss (the pseudonym of author Theodore Seuss Geisel), the NEA’s Read Across America has become a national tradition.
Photo Opportunities (all are in the schools’ auditoriums):
Friday, Feb. 27
Ann Street Elementary (126 E. Bloom Street, Los Angeles)
12:30-1:25 p.m. and 1:30-2:25 p.m.
Friday, March 6
Hammel Elementary School (438 N. Brannick Avenue, Los Angeles)
8:30-10 a.m. and 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Huntington Drive Elementary (4435 N. Huntington Drive, Los Angeles)
1-2:15 p.m.
99th Street School (9900 Wadsworth Street, Los Angeles)
12:45-2:15 p.m.
Friday, March 13
Kennedy Elementary School (4010 E. Ramboz Drive, Los Angeles)
8:30-9:45 a.m. and 10-11:15 a.m.
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