{"id":351,"date":"2019-11-19T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-demo.com\/happyreading\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2020-06-26T04:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:51:16","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging-demo.com\/happyreading\/about\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Who, What, When, and Why of HAPPY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What We Do<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We offer informational articles, engaging instructional materials, customized tutoring plans, classroom consulting services, and much more. We are literacy resource-rich and intent on equipping those who teach, those who serve, and those who learn.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY Reading is for you. With engaging content and customized consulting services, HAPPY Reading equips those who teach, those who serve, and those who learn.<\/p>\n<p>At HAPPY Reading, we love books. They hold promise and power within their pages. But it takes both knowledge and wisdom to create a reading culture.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY Reading helps learners discover the reader within by thinking outside the book.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY Reading is all about best practices in literacy education. We are also about improving outcomes for all learners through increasingly intelligent and imaginative approaches to instruction. For example, our downloadable instructional materials are highly efficient\u2026 combining content knowledge, standards, word study, leveled reading and more into short, lively, fun-to-read poems and reader\u2019s theater scripts. Nowhere else can you find this powerful and efficient combination in one place.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY Reading is for parents, classroom teachers, resource specialists, home school instructors, academic administrators, program directors, library professionals, counselors, tutors, volunteers, community leaders, adult learners and literacy enthusiasts who are dedicated, informed and innovative. For you, we provide smart articles, compelling interviews, top-notch read-aloud recommendations and evidence-based instructional materials that are diverse, downloadable and FUN\u2026 to nourish your budding literacy learners, to help them discover that they love reading\u2026 and that HAPPILY, books are for them. We add new content all the time.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to join our community if you believe as we do: that successful reading, writing, speaking and listening\u00a0are possible for virtually everyone\u2026 and that learning is a lifelong gift to cherish and to share.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When We Do It<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Throughout the academic year, we offer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bibliotherapy Consulting<\/li>\n<li>Classroom Consulting<\/li>\n<li>HAPPY Community Program Consulting<\/li>\n<li>HAPPY Preschool<\/li>\n<li>HAPPY Primary<\/li>\n<li>(I\u2019m HAPPY Reading) Books to You<\/li>\n<li>Read Up<\/li>\n<li>Word Up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For those living in central Virginia, during the academic year, we offer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tutoring<\/li>\n<li>Workshops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And in the summer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HAPPY Reading Camp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Central Virginians can learn more about our year-round offerings and sign up for tutoring, parent brunches, HAPPY Game Nights and assorted book club group meetings at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/happyreadingappointments.as.me\/\">https:\/\/happyreadingappointments.as.me<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why We Do It<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>At HAPPY Reading, we love books. They hold promise and power within their pages. But it takes both knowledge and wisdom to create a reading culture.\u00a0 We want to create and to enhance the reading culture everywhere possible.<\/p>\n<p>When people read well, they have more and better choices for making the life they want.\u00a0 Reading helps build character, prompts problem-solving and creates opportunities for families to bond.\u00a0 It stretches the mind and appeals to the heart.\u00a0 Reading can make us HAPPY.\u00a0 HAPPY readers are more likely to become HAPPY people and to create a HAPPY world.\u00a0 So reading can make us HAPPY!\u00a0 All of us.<\/p>\n<p>Learners who like books are more likely to spend time with them.\u00a0 Love books?\u00a0 Even better\u2026and even more time spent reading.\u00a0 And the research shows us that those who spend more time reading are those who develop better literacy skills.\u00a0 So if the road to a happier world is paved with books, the best way to start on that road is to become a reader!\u00a0 If I am a reader, I read.\u00a0 And I\u2019m much more likely to become a reader if I am immersed in a culture that loves reading.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who Likes It<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201c<em>People really need to see the incredibly creative work you do. Your engaging materials and evidence-based methods are superb and foster a reading culture. Your programs need to be in every type of school and can benefit diverse learners everywhere<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 J. Roberts, Retired Reading Specialist, Retired Elementary Principal and Past President of Virginia State Reading Association<\/p>\n<h3>Professionals<\/h3>\n<p><strong>HAPPY IS\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the most comprehensive and well-planned reading enhancement for any elementary school.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Beverly Abdus-Sabur, former Virginia Media Educator of the Year<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026an excellent use of Title I funds for family involvement and literacy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 S. Scott, Elementary Principal<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026. about turning children into readers, and I recommend it with enthusiasm.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 C. Burke, Elementary Principal<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026highly recommended. Over a three-month period, Ms. Miles\u2019 program of instruction helped virtually every student to meet or exceed the benchmarks.\u00a0 When I observed her classroom instruction, I saw students engaged and excited about learning.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 I Williams, Elementary Principal<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the program that turned our situation around.\u00a0 Students were performing well below the benchmarks in many areas\u2026and the phonics instruction, sight word strategies and reading aloud that was connected closely to our SOL and content needs worked beautifully to enhance what we were already providing\u2026 Reading and writing skill improved across the board, including for our many ESL students.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 J. Hall-Lane, Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<h3>Parents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>HAPPY IS\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026why my son approaches reading more confidently\u2026we have really discovered a new world with literature after receiving new books from you to start our own library at home.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 K. Harris, Mother of Five<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the reason why son\u2019s teacher said he improved in reading by TWO reading levels this nine weeks. I didn\u2019t know what could have made that difference. Then I thought about the reading program.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 N. Robinson, Mother of Five<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026a real help. I\u2019ve always wanted to play games and do learning activities with my baby, but I\u2019ve never known exactly what to do. The lessons help so much. Now I know what to do, and we have fun.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 T. Smith, Mother of Toddler<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026a lifesaver.\u00a0 For years, we\u2019ve struggled with this reading issue and no one seemed able to figure out the problem. But whatever you did, it made all the difference. Thank you!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 N. Oliver, Parent of Middle School Student<\/p>\n<h3>Learners<\/h3>\n<p><strong>HAPPY IS\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the reason I scored the highest reading scores I\u2019ve ever had in my life.\u00a0 I just did everything you taught me.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 High School Student<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026why I feel like I\u2019m in the fourth grade.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t missed any words for like five whole minutes!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Second Grade Student<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026when I feel smart.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Fourth Grade Student<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the best thing about my whole life!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Kindergarten Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Do We offer informational articles, engaging instructional materials, customized tutoring plans, classroom consulting services, and much more. 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