The market is down, oil prices are up, the Arab world is imploding and I have this annoying pain in my shoulder. What to do but pick up a good book? more

Brooklyn Avenue School hosted its third annual Read Aloud day on May 19. Each of the school’s 16 classes had a guest reader, which included district administrators, board of education members, teachers, elected officials and community members. more

A “Fat Tax,” a “Broccoli Sundae,” bickering couples and a talking coffee pot were among the many subjects taken on by members of the Merrick Senior Center’s Creative Writing Workshop during a poetry reading and dramatic presentation at the Merrick Theater and Center for the Arts on May 18. more

Birch Elementary School in Merrick celebrated the written word at its annual Community Read-Aloud on Friday. School officials, elected leaders and community activists were invited to read to children … more

Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick held its annual Community Read-Aloud last Friday, at which community leaders were invited in to read to classes and discuss their professions. Among those in attendance were New York State Assemblyman David McDonough, Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg, Merrick American Legion Commander Bernard Hoffman, and Merrick Fire Chief T.J. Fernandez. Scott Brinton, senior editor of the Merrick Herald, read “Secret of a Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman, an anti-bullying book, to a fifth-grade class co-taught by Ginny Bennette and Susan Holland. Above, the fifth-grade class that Brinton visited. more

An early intervention reading program in Valley Stream has received national attention, as District 30’s “A Stitch in Time” was recognized by the American School Board Journal. more

    For knowledge the school plants a seed, by telling its students to go out and read.    It was a day of my rhymes like that and many more at the William L. Buck … more

With a state mandate to implement a Response to Intervention program less than two years away, District 30 officials say they are ahead of the curve and working to meet the needs to students who have early reading difficulties. more

Island Park kicked off the annual People As Reading Partners (PARP) in grand style on Jan. 13. Herman Parish, author of some of the very popular Amelia Bedelia series of books, about the … more

Humbled and honored, Oceanside Summer Gazebo Readings founder Tony Iovino received the Long Island Writers’ Guild Community Service Award last Sunday at Manor East in Massapequa. more