The National Guard Reads Across America with United Through Reading!

March 30, 2015

The National Guard joins the National Education Association’s Read Across America fun!  They are also looking forward to reading science, technology, engineering and math books this summer.210v2

The Read Across America activity continues! This week Chief Master Sergeant Mitch Brush, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, told us he knows how important it is to encourage his boys to read daily and because he or his wife, Blaire, read to them every night, he’s proud to say they have become readers. His favorite books? That’s easy, Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss and Duck on a Bike by David Shannon. In fact, Chief Brush picked up the Dr. Seuss favorite for Read Across America with United Through Reading to take part in the wonderful campaign that encourages every kid in every community to celebrate reading!

While we spoke to Chief Brush, he also elaborated about how important every STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related field is in the Armed Forces, but he emphasized that before a student can excel in the technical fields, they must be able to read.   We were excited to tell him about our STEM the Summer Slide Campaign starting this June in which United Through Reading purchases books like Actual Size by Steve Jenkins so that parents can read to kids about the actual size of a gorilla’s hand or an octopus eye while being video recorded.  Then, they send the book and the DVD home.  We are teaming up with service members everywhere to help stem the “Summer Slide” which describes the two months of reading achievement that can be lost when children don’t continue to read over the summer.

March is National Reading Month.  We encourage you to “put on a hat and read with the Cat” or read about “what’s in your child’s lunchbox” because storytime with your child, niece or sibling is important and shouldn’t be missed because you are separated by miles or oceans serving our country in the Armed Forces.

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