Magazine Literacy Bee

Here's a few tips and easy steps for labeling and sorting your magazines for delivery:

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• If you have a large quantity of magazines, find a community meeting room in a school or library to label and sort your magazines.
• Magazines are heavy, and moving them around is hard work. Keep the load light. Only lift what you can.
• Be respectful of your meeting location and clean up when you're done.

Here some easy steps to get your magazines ready for delivery to children and families.

1. Gather your supplies - magazines, of course, literacy gift labels, and permanent markers to blackout existing mailing labels...

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2. ... and paper grocery bags are handy to package magazines for delivery to shelters, food pantries, and other literacy programs.

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3. Carefully tear off paper labels and replace them with literacy gift labels. This protects the privacy of the magazine donor and gives the new reader a magazine they can call their own.

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4. If the existing mailing information is printed directly on the magazine, blackout the information and cover that with a literacy gift label.

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5. Sort your magazines by title, and type.

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6. Package the sorted magazines in grocery bags for easy delivery to agencies helping new readers.

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