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READING PROGRAM!
For each session, Amanda sent a login link to about 25 kids and
Amanda said, who would read a book aloud, and then do a Q and
breakout room, where they read a book to-gether and worked
The number of students who signed up for the program was
Before the program started June 1, the Bradenton Marauders
Community Foundation, with extra books supplemented by the
A Change of Plans
week for four weeks, at Anna Maria Oyster Bar restaurants and
WORDS: Kara Chalmers
PICTURES: Whitney Patton
When Manatee County schools closed in March due to the
three summers, the program — which she had founded with her
with elementary school students who aren’t reading at their grade