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Marietta Reads NewsBarnes & Noble/Marietta Reads! in-store Book Fair, May 15 - 17Bring a copy of the voucher to any of the participating stores and Barnes & Noble will donate a portion of the net sale to benefit Marietta Reads! Barnes & Noble is pleased to partner with Marietta Reads!, a Marietta City Schools community and school literacy initiative. VoucherMarietta Reads! Top Readers at Scholastic Book FairsMarietta Reads! partner Scholastic Book Fairs recently recognized thirty-nine elementary grades students for achieving Top Reader status. The students and their teachers visited the Scholastic Book Fair Southern region offices in Kennesaw on May 13 for the Marietta Reads! Top Reader Extravaganza. More»Photos» Marietta Reads! 4th Annual Read-A-Thon Raises Over $4,500 Marietta Reads! today announced the results of its fourth Annual Read-A-Thon fundraising program for Marietta City Schools elementary and Sixth Grade Academy students. Participating students collected donations based on the amount of reading they did. More»Sixth Grade Literacy Tutors WantedMarietta Sixth Grade Academy needs literacy tutors. Training is provided and the schedule is flexible. The Georgia Literacy Connection Program provides tutorial literacy services to sixth grade students. Tutors help students with word attack skills, phonics, grammar and necessary skills to become an accomplished reader. To volunteer contact Donna Frankovsky of Communities In Schools Of Marietta/Cobb County, Inc. at 678-503-0901 or dfrankovsky@cismcc.org.Become a Marietta Reads! SponsorBy becoming a Marietta Reads! sponsor, you can give the gift of reading to someone else. Your generous contributions will help purchase books, supplies, and other resources necessary for implementing sound literacy programs. Corporate/Business Sponsor opportunities Personal and Individual Sponsorship
For more information on becoming a sponsor, please contact Debra Pickett at (770) 422-3500 or via email dpickett@marietta-city.k12.ga.us Your support can make a difference. Marietta Reads! Factors In All-America City Selection
As part of the National Civic League process that led to Marietta ’s selection as an All-America City, the Judges required that the city demonstrate a program to benefit children. Marietta Reads!, the Marietta City Schools citywide effort to foster reading and literacy in the community, successfully helped the city illustrate how the program has increased student test scores and book circulation. |
Our Literacy PartnersThe Cobb Literacy Council's mission is to bring together community resources to promote and support literacy training in Cobb County. For more information, visit Cobb Literacy Council.
Thank you sponsors!We would like to thank all of our generous sponsors for their commitment to literacy in our community. View all of our sponsors |
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