San Angelo READS! Delivers Final Round of Summer Book Patrol Deliveries

The San Angelo READS! Summer Book Patrol made its final round of summer book deliveries on July 9. SAISD administrators, principals, educators and staff spent the day delivering bags of activities, snacks, balloons and a total of 220 books to 52 students and their 64 siblings. This summer, the San Angelo READS! Summer Book Patrol delivered a total of 364 books to SAISD students. 

“It’s always so fun being a part of the San Angelo READS! Summer Book Patrol deliveries!" said Sun Cha, SAISD director of community relations. "It’s important for students to continue reading during the summer months and we are thrilled to be able to deliver books to students during summer break.”

The goal of Summer Book Patrol, an extension of the District’s San Angelo READS! initiative, is to continue inspiring and promoting a love of reading, especially in the critical summer months. The District hopes the deliveries not only encourage our students to continue reading during the summer but also bring a smile to their faces and let them know they are supported and special.

“The majority of the book deliveries are a surprise to the student,” Ms. Cha said. “Watching the students’ faces light up with excitement when they come to the door and see their principal or another faculty member from their school is priceless and so heartwarming.”

We extend a special thanks to our SAISD Difference Maker team members who took time out of their day to help to deliver for the Summer Book Patrol fun. We extend our appreciation to H-E-B for their partnership with the Summer Book Patrol and their support of literacy in the San Angelo community. 

“The Summer Book Patrol certainly wouldn’t be possible without our generous community partners, like H-E-B,” said Ms. Cha. “We are grateful to have such wonderful community partners who help us put books into the hands of our students." 

SAVE THE DATE for SAN ANGELO READS! BACK-TO-SCHOOL POP-UP EVENT

Mark your calendars and save the date! Join us for a free, family-friendly San Angelo READS! and United We Read Back-to-School Pop-Up Event Friday, August 2 at the Foster Communications Coliseum from 11:00 am-1:00 pm! This back-to-school event will be similar to our North Pole Pop-Up and Summer Book Patrol Pop-Up events with a slight change. We’ll still be celebrating literacy with the same great READS! pop-up fun, games and activities but we are expanding the focus to also provide the community with FREE food and FREE Back-to-School resources such as school supplies, backpacks, coupons, free services, etc. We hope you can join us and help us celebrate and inspire a love of reading within our Concho Valley community and helping our families prepare for the new school year!

Community Partners — We would like to invite you and your businesses or organization to join us for this free, kid-friendly, community event to champion literacy and provide our families with free back-to-school resources! To register to have a booth and activity or free giveaways at our Back-to-School Pop-Up Event, simply fill out this participation form By 1 pm, Friday, July 26. 2024. 

To stay up-to-date on San Angelo ISD, please visit the SAISD website at www.saisd.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Community members are encouraged to share how they celebrate literacy and participate in San Angelo Reads! through the hashtag, #SAISDReads.

San Angelo READS!

The San Angelo READS! community-wide literacy initiative was founded by the District in 2020 to promote and encourage reading and the SAISD future-ready learner profile attributes among SAISD students and the greater San Angelo community. The goal of the literacy initiative is to increase awareness of the importance of literacy and to inspire a love for reading. This exciting initiative is driven by statistics which show how vitally important literacy is to providing all students with the opportunities to succeed at a young age. Children and teenagers who read for pleasure on a daily or weekly basis score better on reading and writing tests than infrequent or non-readers.

SAISD kicked off San Angelo READS! on December 9, 2020 with the inaugural San Angelo Reads! Day, a day when literacy was celebrated at every SAISD elementary campus with literacy fun like read-ins, unveiling book vending machines and a gift of a book to all SAISD third-graders compliments of the San Angelo Area Foundation. Inside and outside our classrooms, SAISD is committed to building literacy skills which create students who are prepared for future success, thus building a better tomorrow for our students and community.