{"id":23249,"date":"2015-03-01T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23249"},"modified":"2015-02-28T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:48:09","slug":"national-read-across-america-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/national-read-across-america-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Read Across America Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.readacrossamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/promo-nea-raa.jpg?resize=298%2C386\" alt=\"Read Across America: An NEA project\" width=\"298\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>Happy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National\u00a0Read Across America Day<\/strong><\/a>! Read Across America is a program put together by the National Education Association that encourages children and teens to read by partnering with various community organizations, doing events across the country, and by providing reading resources. One of their more publicized events throughout the year is National Read Across America Day, which is March 2nd\u00a0AND is also\u00a0Dr. Seuss&#8217; birthday. As a tribute to Dr. Seuss this year, the National Education Association has chosen <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=146163\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Oh, The Places You&#8217;ll Go<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as the book to be read across the country.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for ways to set up your own Read Across America event, the NEA has you covered! Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/plan-a-reading-event.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Plan a Reading Event<\/a> page to find materials, certificates, banners, and more! Still need more event ideas or are you curious if there are already any Read Across America Day events planned in your local community? Visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/ReadAcrossAmericaPledge.html\" target=\"_blank\">events page <\/a>to check out the events happening across the country(and the world!) and also take the Read Across America pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Come to the library and check out what other wonderful Dr. Seuss materials are available! If Dr. Seuss isn&#8217;t your cup of tea, don&#8217;t worry! Our librarians can help you find other materials to help you enjoy Read Across America Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy\u00a0National\u00a0Read Across America Day! Read Across America is a program put together by the National Education Association that encourages children and teens to read by partnering with various community organizations, doing events across the country, and by providing reading resources. One of their more publicized events throughout the year is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/national-read-across-america-day\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[2860,2862,2861],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-read","tag-read-across-america","tag-seuss"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-62Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions\/23280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}