Awards and Praise for the RIF Website
 Webby Nomination
April 2006
RIF.org was honored to be nominated for the Best Charitable Organization/ Nonprofit website of 2006 in the Webbys, known as the "online Oscars." More...
Parents' Choice Award
March 2006
The RIF Reading Planet is delighted to receive the Parents' Choice Silver Honors Award. Parents' Choice gave an excellent review saying that the site "[is as] bright and colorful as a jar of jellybeans, this site has a lot going on—both visually and in the form of reading motivation for kids." More...
 Webby Worthy Award
June 2005
RIF is very pleased to receive recognition for both RIF.org and the RIF Reading Planet website by the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences. Both sites were named Webby Worthy, a distinction for websites exhibiting remarkable achievement. More...
 Parents' Choice Award
March 2005
The RIF Reading Planet website was honored to receive one of The Parents' Choice Foundation's Small Screen Awards. More...
Education World, Best of 2004
January 2005
In 2004, Education World editors reviewed 120 websites of interest to educators and their students, and the RIF Reading Planet -- with an A+ rating -- was chosen as one of the top 20 sites reviewed in 2004.
District Administration's Website Pick of the Week
July 2004
The editors of District Administration magazine for K-12 school administrators selected the Reading Is Fundamental website as "Dr. Hotlist's Site of the Week."
ALA Great Website for Kids
May 2004
The RIF Reading Planet has been selected for inclusion in the American Library Association's Great Web Sites for Kids page, in the Games & Entertainment section. This site was considered among the best websites for ages birth to 14, outstanding in both content and conception, and it was one of 16 sites selected from over 500 entries as a 2004 Great Web Sites for Kids addition! Click here for the full list of chosen sites...
Washington Times, Family Times Web Wise Pick
March 2004
The Washington Times newspaper gave the RIF Reading Planet a great review stating, " Through a bright, cartoony and multicolored opening page, the site's mascot, Riffington, a large, blue, furry Muppet-like creature, gives children 5 to 12 years old the choice of entering the Activity Lab, Game Station, Book Zone or Express Yourself to motivate a new generation of bookworms." Read the full article...
Education World "A+ Site"
February 2004
Education World gave the RIF Reading Planet a perfect rating, saying "This site is vibrant and colorful with child friendly graphics. Kids will love this online world of books created just for them!" Read the full review...
"Cool Site of the Night"
December 2003
The RIF website was selected based on the criteria that the website is of a non-commercial nature and offers family-oriented, interesting content.
"WiredKids Safe Site"
December 2003
"This Safe Site Seal is only given to sites that offer something special for families, especially to children. We look for sites that encourage learning, literacy and are also fun and, most importantly, safe."
USA Today "Web Kids' Pick"
By Jinny Gudmundsen
July 2003
"This site (RIF Reading Planet) offers a wide variety of reading activities for kids of all ages. In the Game Station section, kids can contribute to a group-authored online story. The site posts the beginning of a story, and kids submit suggested additions from which the rest of the story is created.
Super Sorter Machine is one of the wackier games. When a youngster answers a series of seemingly unrelated questions, the machine attempts to deduce the child's interests and then generates a list of appropriate books. Kid-testers were pleasantly surprised when the lists actually included some books they were interested in reading."
 Yahooligans Cool Site of the Week
July 2003
"There truly is a world of reading activities at Reading Planet where you can read and review books, get creative with writing, illustrating, and coloring stories, and check out what other kids are doing, too!"
School Library Journal's "Site of the Week"
June 2003
"This site by Reading is Fundamental offers librarians some good ideas. There are also several helpful reading resources, such as Writers' Blocks, that encourage kids to write and publish their stories online." 
USA Today Educator's "Bet Best" Website
May 2003
"This site provides a variety of childhood literacy information and activities for children, parents, and educators. They have collected resources and materials on many literacy topics to help prepare young children for reading and school-age children to make reading a habit."
Website Credits
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