Celebrating Ohio Right to Read Week is one way to stress the importance of reading in our society.  Fostering a lifelong love of reading is an important goal.  We know that good reading skills are essential for success in many subject areas.

Celebrating Ohio Right to Read Week is one way to unite the community, Fostering good relationships within the community is a benefit.  OCIRA invites you and your community to participate. 

Here is an activity that can be used for the 2012 Right to Read Celebration.

Ohio’s Right to Read tradition is a strong one!  The role of reading celebrations is acknowledged in the ODE Guidelines and Benchmarks for School Libraries.  By sustained silent reading, by reading to others, by discussing the books we read and enjoy,  we encourage students to develop lifetime reading habits.

Marge Lucas, (Margaret.reads@att.net) 
OCIRA  Chairperson
Ohio Right to Read/Newspaper in Ed. Committee

For the Year 2011-2012

One Dozen Reasons Why We Celebrate Ohio Right to Read Week

To promote the joy of reading.    
To build good reading habits.
To improve reading skills.
To read aloud.
To read silently.
To discuss ideas in books, stories, poems, nonfiction writing.
To review the importance of reading.
To learn how reading affects the careers and lives of others.
To participate in creative activities that relate to reading.
To share a love of lifetime learning within school, family, community.
To meet Ohio’s Academic Standards across the Curriculum.
To explore newer reading formats and resources::  digital,  e-books,  blogs, webpages (authors, illustrators, publishers) Twitter, Facebook, etc.