{"id":886,"date":"2019-01-16T01:49:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2019-01-16T01:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:49:04","slug":"drop-everything-and-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/16\/drop-everything-and-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Everything and Read!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught first grade, I gave my students 15-20 minutes of DEAR time every day. DEAR stood for Drop Everything and Read. I&#8217;ve heard this time when students sit and read called many things: SSR (Sustained Silent Reading), DIRT (Daily Independent Reading Time), SQUIRT (Sustained Quiet Independent Reading Time)-really?! or just plain independent reading. I still love DEAR the best so I had to smile when I heard that Capstone Publishing, one of the most respected children&#8217;s publishers for the school market and beyond-and located right here in Minnesota-has launched a literacy campaign called Reading is for Everyone. Part of their efforts include participation in a DEAR day on Friday, February 1 from 10-11:00 am, where all Capstone employees drop everything and read. If you are a teacher, parent, daycare provider, grandparent, or anyone else who would like to have the kids in your life participate on Feb. 1, take a photo and post it on social media using hashtags\u00a0#ReadingIsForEveryone and #CapstoneForAllKids.\u00a0Capstone will select random winners to win literary swag.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Reading!<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-887\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-7.24.16-PM-300x115.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-7.24.16-PM-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-7.24.16-PM-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-7.24.16-PM.png 878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more :<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capstonepub.com\/library\/sites\/reading_is_for_everyone\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.capstonepub.com\/library\/sites\/reading_is_for_everyone\/index.html <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught first grade, I gave my students 15-20 minutes of DEAR time every day. DEAR stood for Drop Everything and Read. I&#8217;ve heard this time when students sit and read called many things: SSR (Sustained Silent Reading), DIRT (Daily Independent Reading Time), SQUIRT (Sustained Quiet Independent Reading Time)-really?! or just plain independent reading. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}