Learners in READ/Orange County have:

· Checked out library books for the first time!

· Voted for the first time!

· Written a check and balanced a checkbook!

· Sent cards and letters to family and friends!

· Received a new or better job!

· Received a promotion!

· Enrolled in community college!

· Spent time reading to a Sunday School class!

· Begun to feel confident enough to sound out words on their own!

· Begun to try new types of reading!

· Read a fortune cookie for the first time!

· Sent email for the first time!