{"id":558,"date":"2013-05-07T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=558"},"modified":"2013-05-15T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:13:01","slug":"creeds-senior-reading-buddies-program-wins-state-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/creeds-senior-reading-buddies-program-wins-state-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeds Senior Reading Buddies Program wins state honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Houston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-559\" alt=\"Houston\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Houston-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Houston-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Houston-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Houston-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houston Shirk and Rachel White read together as part of the Creeds Senior Reading Buddies Program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Creeds Senior Reading Buddies Program was recently awarded the Virginia State Reading Association&#8217;s Intergenerational Literacy Award at the VSRA Annual Conference. This award is given to an &#8220;individual or local council for expanding literacy beyond professional duties and for promoting support from the public, relative to enhancing literacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Creeds Senior Reading Buddies Program was started in 2011 by reading specialist Jennifer Haws as a partnership between Creeds Elementary and the Senior Resource Center on Princess Anne Road. Seniors volunteer an hour a week to read with three to four students\u00a0to promote oral reading, comprehension, writing and letter-sound knowledge. Over 20 participating seniors have provided this volunteer service with a smile, sharing their love of literacy with the students of Creeds.<\/p>\n<p>Award money will be used to purchase\u00a0additional books for next year. If you are interested in learning about the program or in volunteering, please contact Creeds Elementary School at 757-648-2400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creeds Senior Reading Buddies Program was recently awarded the Virginia State Reading Association&#8217;s Intergenerational Literacy Award at the VSRA Annual Conference. This award is given to an &#8220;individual or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}