Rural
Heritage Reading Project
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What
we are about:
The
Rural Heritage Reading Project helps today's children to learn about life
for kids in rural
In
reading the books from the Rural Heritage Project, children will learn about the
principles and the values farm kids grew up with back in the 1950s. They
will learn how those attributes have withstood the tests of time and are
just as significant today as they were in that generation of kids growing
up fifty years ago.
What
we do:
The Rural Heritage Reading
Project sends author Jim Pope to fourth grade classrooms at selected central
In addition to the readings
and discussions, the classroom sessions include related activity sheets for
the students to work on, with additional materials being provided to teachers
who want to use the book for further class work. And an essential component
of the author's visit is that all participating fourth grade students are
given a free copy of the book to keep for their own.
Because of our limited budget,
the "free-book-to-every-student" part of our school visits is limited to
the central
Regardless of the number
of books that are provided to a school, there is no charge of any kind to
students, teachers, or their schools for any of the author visits and readings,
the books, or the other materials distributed in the classrooms.
The
first book we are using:
Rural Heritage Reading Project
uses Everyday Adventures of a Farm Boy
in the '50s as its first book. The stories
let today's readers experience what it was like for kids growing up in that
era on a family farm in Lind Township of Waupaca County, in the heart of
central Wisconsin.
At the same time, the basics
of the book go well beyond the limits of just that area. The stories also
capture the character of the rural culture all across much of
The stories in Everyday Adventures of a Farm Boy in the '50s help
today's young people understand what that cultural heritage is all about.
The book connects them to that past and helps them appreciate what has gone
on before them.
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To contact
us:
The Rural Heritage Reading
Project may be contacted by
mail:
phone: 715-341-5452
eMail: ploverjim@gmail.com
____________________________________________________ Rural Heritage Reading Project is an unincorporated non-profit
association.
