Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – January 2019 Executive Director’s Note “If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want
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Executive Director’s Note – January 2019
“If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.“ -Unknown Well, the earth has made another trip around the sun and we find ourselves once again beginning the journey
Reading Buddy Tip of the Month: Back from Winter Break and Ready to Read
After two weeks off from school, many children lose some reading proficiency, particularly if they did not do much recreational reading over the break. For your first session back, you may consider choosing books from a lower reading level or re-reading a book you read before the break to help
Book Buddy News
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR BOOK BUDDY FRIENDS! Our Volunteers. Working right up to the holidays, Book Buddies volunteers sorted and boxed donated books to get them ready for our spring Book Celebrations. As always, the Reagan High School chapter of the National Honor Society has been sending volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight – Steven Simpson
Our Reading Buddy of the month goes to Steven Simpson. Mr. Simpson has been with SAYL for two years now and volunteers at Green Elementary in SAISD. He first learned about the Reading Buddy program through a public service announcement on Texas Public Radio’s classical music station. When he heard
Donor Spotlight – The Greehey Family Foundation
Getting support from those in our community means so much to the SAYL Reading Buddy Program and The Greehey Family Foundation exemplifies that support through their recent donation of $20,000. This generous donation allows San Antonio Youth Literacy the opportunity to continue to deliver our program to those children struggling
Book Buddy News – December 2018
November saw over 100 volunteer hours donated by our terrific Book Buddies. By mid-month volunteers had emptied four huge Gaylord cartons, each holding up to 2,000 books! At this rate we’ll have them all emptied and boxed up for distribution by the end of January. We couldn’t do this without
Book Buddies News – November 2018
At Book Buddies the new year of book drives and volunteer activity is in full swing. Our Book Drive Committee, consisting of Maria Salinas, Rosa Maria Gonzalez, and Midge Breslof, is working on encouraging groups all over the city to hold book drives. And those books have been coming in! Concordia
Book Buddy News – October 2018
Reagan High School Honor Society is again proving to be a valuable partner to Book Buddies, having started the year by agreeing to help at many sorting sessions. On Saturday, September 22, they backed that up by working like beavers to help reduce the pile of unsorted books that have
Book Buddy News – September 2018
Our Goal This Year: Book Buddies are shifting into high gear to bring even more books to kids in Title I schools next spring. Last year’s total of 40,000 books was great, but we hope to come close to doubling that in the 2018 – 2019 school year. How? The same