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Excite Students to Writing 826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing and publishing organization with locations in seven cities across the country. The organization's goal is to assist students, aged 6-18, with their writing skills and to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. After the founding of 826 Valencia, the flagship center in San Francisco, educators around the U.S. joined in to pursue the same goals in their local communities. Now 826 Valencia also serves as the headquarters of 826 National, an umbrella organization that coordinates the adaptation of 826's tutoring and mentorship model in other cities. Already, 826 has sister centers in New York, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Seattle and Boston. Through volunteer support, each of the seven 826 chapters provides drop-in tutoring, class field trips, writing workshops and in-schools programs-all free of charge. 826 chapters are especially committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work and offering services for English language learners.

Research shows that skilled readers use a set of learning strategies that help them make meaning from text. Into the Book provides you with tools to help elementary students learn to use these strategies in reading, the arts, and across the curriculum.

One of the keys ways to help students develop their reading skills is to help them find something they're interested in reading about. Learning about their names, and the name of their family members and friends, could certainly fit into the "high-interest" category. And there are several websites that are designed to facilitate learning just that. After exploring these sites (or before), students can also talk with their family to learn other stories behind their names.

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