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Newsletter March, 2008 Dear All, Welcome to Rime To Read Online. We are thrilled to bring our reading program right into your homes over the internet; no stores, no shipping or packaging costs, no wasteful use of paper and plastic…just immediate learning at your fingertips! We are a partnership of three women: a reading specialist (Ph.D), a first grade teacher (M.Ed) and an illustrator (B.F.A). We developed Rime to Read to fill what we perceived to be a dramatic void in effective materials for teaching young children to read. A few years ago we printed several thousand sets of Rime to Read. The response to our series from parents, educators and children was overwhelmingly positive. We have sold out all of our books! This year we decided to move with the times and make our program available digitally, over the Internet. We know you will find this to be a convenient, effective and environmentally thoughtful way to teach your children to read. You have the option of reading the books on your computer, and/or printing the books for a more traditional reading experience with your child/student. We’d like to share one of our most touching testimonials with you. It was a letter written to us from a teacher in New Orleans soon after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "My name is Suzanne, & I own Helping Hands Daycare & Preschool. We were formerly located in a suburb of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina destroyed our school. When the 17th St. canal levee broke, it flooded our school w/ over 8 ft. of water. One of the highlights of my Pre-K program has been Rime to Read. I have promoted 2 years worth of children to Kindergarten with the ability to read, an accomplishment which is usually not the norm in this area. These books are fantastic & should be a tool in all Pre-K reading programs. Hurricane Katrina took a lot from us, but we will rebuild & be better than ever! Thank you for your books!" Please be sure to tell your friends about Rime to Read. best wishes, Sara, Lynn and Shari