#StopReadingChallenge
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#StopReadingChallenge
#StopReading
Challenge
Can you go 5 minutes without reading?
Can you go
5 minutes
without reading?
Millions of New Yorkers are forced to get by without the literacy skills they need every day.
Could you?
Millions of New Yorkers are forced to get by without the literacy skills they need every day. Could you?
Millions of New Yorkers
are forced to get by
without the literacy skills
they need every day.
Could you?
We're challenging you
We're
challenging
you
Everywhere you look there’s something with words on it. And you read them automatically...because you can. We challenge you to go 5 minutes without reading. Take and post a picture of what you accidentally read and challenge your friends on social media to do the same.
Everywhere you look there’s something with words on it. And you read them automatically...because you can. We challenge you to go 5 minutes without reading. Take and post a picture of what you accidentally read and challenge your friends on social media to do the same
1
Don't read anything
for 5 minutes. Click to
start the timer!
2
Take a picture of what
you accidentally read,
share it on social, tag
@Literacy_NY
#StopReadingChallenge
and challenge your friends!
3
Take Action! Donate and/or volunteer!
5:00
Share the Literacy
People can survive without reading. Millions of New Yorkers do every day. But surviving is not thriving. Sure, you can find workarounds for not being able to tell whether something at the grocery store has ingredients you’re allergic to, or which gate your flight is leaving from. But how do you work around a hole in your life you don’t even know exists? What’s the replacement for being transported by a finely crafted novel? Or simply reading your child’s first essay at school?
3.9 million
New Yorkers
lack a high school diploma and/or have limited English language skills
Literacy has real benefits for adult learners. But don’t take our word for it.
Hear what they have to say and see the difference sharing the literacy makes.
#STOPREADINGCHALLENGE
Al Stripe
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Pu Ma
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Gamliel Mann
#STOPREADINGCHALLENGE
Amy Mortiz
Literacy Enriches Life
Literacy
Enriches Life
Help everyone across New York experience it
Help everyone across
New York experience it
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Literacy New York leads and supports adult literacy across New York state. By donating, you help build the capacity of direct service agencies to train tutors, provide tutoring to adult learners, and ensure effective delivery of quality adult literacy services in New York State.
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-
Everything Stops Because Nobody Is Reading
- We challenge you to go 5 minutes without reading!
- September 9th, 2024
- 12:00 noon to 12:05PM
More about
Literacy New York
Literacy New York (LNY) works to create and strengthen literate communities throughout all of New York State and has done so for over 40 years. We provide technical assistance, training, program support, advocacy for adult literacy, and help build the organizational capacity of community-based literacy programs. These local programs, in turn, provide literacy instruction to adults who want to improve their literacy skills.
For more than 40 years, we have served as a vocal advocate for adult literacy at the state and federal level. To this day, we continue to speak out on behalf of this issue. Programs supported by LNY raise literacy levels for thousands of adult learners in New York State through the service of numerous dedicated volunteers.
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