[Masthead] Fair ~ 61°F  
High: 80°F ~ Low: 56°F
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Print Email link Respond to editor Read comments (1)

Sophomores earn grant, buy books for second-graders

Monday, July 23, 2012
By Tina Parker, Carroll County News

(Photo)
Green Forest second-graders show off the books they received for free from the 10th grade class of Annette Phillips, which purchased the books with a grant the class received from the Carroll County Community Foundation to help promote literacy among kids. Photo contributed
Green Forest -- The Carroll County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Arkansas Community Foundation, awarded Annette Phillips and her 10th grade Pre-AP English class a cash stipend recently.

Phillips' class read the novel "Fahrenheit 451," which tells about the importance of books, and afterward, the class came up with a project to promote literacy in children and the presented their idea to the foundation. In turn, CCCF granted the class an award of $420.

"The class used the grant money to purchase books for the entire second grade and presented them with the books at the end of the school year," said Phillips. "My students encouraged the second-graders to read over the summer, in hopes that they would become lifelong readers."

The award was presented to the class at the end of the 2011-12 school year.

© Copyright 2012 Carroll County News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Comments
Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on carrollconews.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.

..nice..that's just super...next stop..The US Constitution.

-- Posted by Atlas Shrugged on Tue, Jul 24, 2012, at 5:47 PM

Respond to this story

Posting a comment requires free registration. If you already have an account on this site, enter your username and password below. Otherwise, click here to register.

Username:

Password:  (Forgot your password?)

Your comments:
Please be respectful of others and try to stay on topic.