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Education Statistics

In 2013, an average of 7,000 U.S. students dropped out of high school every single day. 79% of them had a parent who was incarcerated.

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Uncommon Words

AFFLATUS: (n) A divine creative impulse or inspiration.

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Words Have Power

“May we never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein

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“Live your life like it’s your second chance.” Salman Khan

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“What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be?” Nido Qubein

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Weekly Update

We are excited to partner with Ready4K and Parent Powered to expand our literacy text messaging service! By incorporating Ready4K into our current programming, our parents will begin receiving not one but three literacy text messages every single week.

Originally launched through Stanford University, Ready4K’s bite-size tips-by-text have been proven to increase parent engagement in literacy practices, and to significantly improve children’s expressive and receptive vocabulary, phonological awareness and print knowledge.

We are thankful for the opportunity to support Ready4K’s mission to use the powerful simplicity of text messaging to improve the lives of parents and children around the world.

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1,200 Books in November

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Achievement Gap Stats

58% of students in low socioeconomic status households do not complete high school.

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Uncommon Words

DESUETUDE: (n) State of disuse.

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Inspirational Quotes

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“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” Anne Rice

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“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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“I don’t want to die without any scars.” Chuck Palahniuk

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Early Childhood Literacy Update

 

November was a month full of gratitude. Thanks to the support we received on #GivingTuesday, we raised funds to donate 200 books to children in need. Thank you! We are also honored to have received the James Patterson Grant earlier this month. Thanks to best selling author, James Patterson, and Scholastic Reading Club,Word Rebel has received a grant to donate 1,000 books to build 20 day care libraries in low-income housing projects throughout New York. James Patterson personally read and selected the winning recipients amongst thousands of grant applicants. We are thankful to be chosen to give more children access to high-quality books and an equal opportunity to succeed.

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70 Books in East Harlem

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Weekly Statistic

68% of 12th graders in high-poverty schools graduate as compared to 91% of students in high-income schools.

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Word of the Week

RECIDIVIST: (n) Repeat offender.

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Words Have Power

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman

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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; It is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn

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“Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain…To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” Kevyn Aucoin

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Weekly Update

The mission of our East Harlem partner, Boys & Girls Harbor, is to empower children to see a future for themselves they never imagined by exposing them to experiences that help them discover their full potential. Over 70 parents of children at the Boys & Girls Harbor Day Care have received award-winning books to build their home libraries. Now, they receive weekly eBooks and strategies to build their child’s vocabulary and reading skills.We are grateful to support Boys & Girls Harbor’s mission  by ensuring children start preschool with the literacy skills they need to succeed.

Shout out to our President, Caitlin Motherway for hosting WordRebel‘s November 2nd fundraiser. Thanks to the generosity of event guests, we were able to raise nearly $1,000 to donate high-quality books to over 300 children living in poverty in New York City; Every single hard cover book is donated alongside a year of literacy resources and instruction. Every week, parents receive 3 eBooks and 3 strategies to teach literacy skills during daily routines. Because of supporters like you, over 300 children will begin preschool with the reading skills they need to reach their full potential. Thank you for making story-time and equal opportunity possible.

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80 families are building home libraries in Harlem

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Education Fact

Children who are read to at least 3x a week are twice as likely to score in the top 25% of their class.

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Uncommon Vocabulary

CHRYSALISM: (n) The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

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Inspirational Quotes

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.” Charlotte Bronte

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“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” John Quincy Adams

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Early Literacy Update

Our partner, The Children’s Aid Society, serves children living in the Drew Hamilton Housing Projects on 143rd and Frederick Douglass in Harlem. In addition to providing year round care for 80 children ages 2 – 4, they offer family support and parent workshops. Thanks to supporters like you, all 80 families have received hardcover books to build home libraries. Starting today, they receive weekly downloadable books and strategies to teach vocabulary and reading skills during daily routines.

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30 Books for Homeless Children

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Education Statistic

Where parent involvement is low, student reading scores are 46 points below the national average. Where involvement is high, reading scores are 28 points above the national average – a gap of 74 points.

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Uncommon Vocabulary

RUBATOSIS: (n) The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

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Inspirational Quotes

“I’d rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.” Dorothy Allison

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“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Toni Morrison

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“So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you that it can’t be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself, there are no limits.” Michael Phelps

 

Early Literacy Update Our South Bronx partner, H.E.L.P., is a transitional housing shelter dedicated to ending family homelessness. In addition to providing a safe place for 96 homeless children to live, HELP runs child care programs to lessen the trauma of poverty and homelessness. We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to their family involvement and support component by providing books and literacy resources to the 30 children they serve under 5 years old.

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Uncommon Vocabulary

KENOPSIA: (n) The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

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Education Statistic

21% of American adults have level 1 reading skills, meaning they can locate a single piece of information in a short text if it matches the language in the question or directive. Only 3% of adults have level 5 reading skills, meaning they can make high-level inferences and contrast complex information within a dense text.

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Inspirational Quotes

“Lately, I feel restless, like there is a great surprise in the world, waiting for me to find it.”Meera Lee

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“Once you have flown, you will walk the Earth with your eyes skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.” Leonardo DaVinci

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“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” William Carlos Williams

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Books Have Shipped!

September 8, 2016

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Uncommon Vocabulary

LACHESISM: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall – to put a kink in the smooth arc of your life.

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Education Statistic

70% of inmates in American prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level.

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Inspirational Quotes

“We are getting older, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get the power, and then you look out. Look out.”Melissa Etheridge

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“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” Mark Twain

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller

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Early Literacy Update

Last week, we visited 40 daycares serving housing projects throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx to distribute literacy resources and take book orders. Books have shipped! 30 daycare directors are currently distributing their chosen assortment of classic children’s books to every child they serve. At our 10 Bronx daycares, every family is now enrolling to receive 1 new book every month from like-minded nonprofit, Imagination Library. Finally, every family receives their new book with a free subscription to Word Rebel‘s weekly email-text service, which makes daily literacy instruction effortless for hardworking families living below the poverty line.

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Words Have Power to Connect

September 1, 2016

Uncommon Vocabulary ÉNOUEMENT: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Education Statistics Of the 16 million children living in poverty in the U.S., 10 million do not own a single book.

Inspirational Quotes “At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable.” Paul Graham “Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.” Barbara Kingsolver   “We can never give up longing and wishing. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.” George Eliot

Early Literacy Update Our mission is not only to provide families with WordRebel books and resources. We also provide resources that make it effortless for families to take advantage of every free book available. This week, 3,500 families are learning which local “Reach Out and Read” pediatricians provide books and literacy training at yearly check-ups. At our Bronx daycares, 630 families are currently enrolling in “Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.” Every single month, 630 families will be mailed one high quality, age-appropriate book directly to their homes.

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Words Have Power

August 25, 2016

Uncommon Vocabulary JOUSKA: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Education Statistic Only 58% of low-income children start school “ready” to learn (with the language processing skills essential to understanding grade-level material).

Inspirational Quotes “When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, your people who truly like themselves, they don’t think about themselves very much.” Tom Robbins “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank  “Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won.” Ayn Rand

Early Literacy Update We are excited to make 1 free book and 1 year of literacy instruction part of how 30 daycares welcome 2,000 families back after Labor Day. Plus..thanks to First Book and Molina Healthcare, all 50 daycares will receive 30 wellness-themed children’s books! Want to make equal opportunity a reality for more children living in housing projects in NYC? Forward this post to 10 friends + Invite them to donate $15 (5 books) = Sponsor a book give-away at 1 of 20 remaining daycares.

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Can a Text Change a Life?

August 18, 2016

Uncommon Vocabulary EXULANSIS: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Education Statistic 37% of children begin preschool lacking the basic literacy skills they need to ever catch up, graduate, or succeed in an academic or professional field.

Inspirational Quotes “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” Henry Fielding  “Every war is both won and lost…someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”Barbara Kingsolver “Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.” Hafiz

Early Literacy Update With the 2016-2017 year about to begin, we are excited to subscribe thousands of parents to our weekly text and email service. The hardworking parents we serve have almost no extra time to read to their children. It is often difficult, if not impossible, for parents living in poverty to give their children the resources and experiences they need to have an equal opportunity to succeed. This is whyWord Rebel‘s mission is not simply to donate books. We empower parents to use every available moment to teach vocabulary and reading skills. Every parent wants the best for their child. Not every parent realizes that the best way a parent can prepare a child for college is to teach them 1,100 word before preschool. We are here to spread the word!

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