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JUSD's Literacy Without Limits campaign is recognized as a winner of the National School Public Relations Association's Golden Achievement Award. This campaign raises awareness about the importance of literacy for academic success. By increasing family and community awareness and participation in literacy-focused programs - particularly in the primary grade - we hope to significantly impact literacy.
JUSD Family Reading Challenge
The JUSD Family Reading Challenge encourages students to read for at least 10 minutes with their families each night. In the first year the challenge was held, students read more than 74,000 minutes in total. Now in the second year, the reading challenge is currently underway and students have read more than 150,000 minutes so far! Students can log their minutes until December 4th at: bit.ly/JUSDReadingChallenge24.
JUSD Superintendent announcement of the JUSD Family Reading Challenge:
What is JUSD reading?
Find out what JUSD students are reading in their free time!
A new approach to teaching literacy
Book vending machines in JUSD elementary schools
Every Jurupa Unified elementary school has a new exciting installation! Book vending machines are now at every elementary school to make literacy accessible and fun for all students. Students can 'purchase' the books with tokens earned for positive behavior.
Video spotlight on Jurupa Adult School's brand new book vending machine:
Book tastings took place across the district in the 2023-2024 school year as part of the district’s Literacy Without Limits campaign. Each school participated and put their own spin on the idea.
Mystery Readers at Elementaries
District and community leaders encourage students to read and try new book genres by serving as Mystery Readers throughout JUSD libraries. Mystery Readers surprise classes during their library time to read an exciting book with them and then donate the new book to their school library.
LEAP Summer Program focused on literacy
In the 2023 summer, JUSD centered its LEAP (Learning Engages All Possibilities) around literacy.
Family Literacy Activities
High School Book Buddies
The Book Buddies program pairs Neva Vista High School ASB leaders with transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students in an effort to build reading and socialization skills for the kindergarteners and reinforce leadership skills for the high schoolers.
The Horizon feature on the Book Buddies program:
