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Taking Action to Motivate Learning and Improve Comprehension

Go the Distance!™ is a ground breaking program of carefully selected titles and teaching resources that help motivate and encourage all students to achieve their personal best. Developed in collaboration with Muhammad and Lonnie Ali, Go the Distance! actively engages students in instruction and develops comprehension skills making reading and learning relevant to their lives. 

This program features award-winning, multicultural fiction and nonfiction literature with stories, events, characters, and settings that motivate students to become accomplished readers.  Each library helps teachers engage students with text through personally relevant, character building questions, and meaningful dialogue based on Ali’s™ six essential ideas: follow my convictions, build confidence, show determination, give of myself, offer and earn respect, and look for mentors.

	On TV: As seen on CBS Evening News! Muhammad Ali’s New Fight: Literacy CBS evening news anchor Katie Couric interviews Lonnie Ali!
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In Print: “Teaming Up with Muhammad and Lonnie Ali.” Feature Article by Sally Lodge. Children's Bookshelf (Publishers Weekly.com). Nov. 16, 2006
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New Children’s Book Collection Bears Boxing Great’s Name Feature Article by James Prichard. Associated Press (AssociatedPress.com). December 3, 2006.
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Go the Distance!™

• Empowers students to discover the significance of reading.
• Motivates learning using a curricular approach that encourages personal relevance.
• Provides an easy-to-follow instructional model.
• Provides flexibility to be implemented as a complement to any core reading program.

Library A Grades 3–4	Library B Grades 5–6	Library C Grades 7–8

Based on the experience and research of Drs. Jeffrey Wilhelm and Alfred Tatum, Go the Distance!™builds connections to literature, by presenting and modeling strategies that improve comprehension, boost vocabulary, and develop knowledge of literary elements.

Learn more about our academic advisors!
	Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm Associate Professor, Boise State University Learn More		Dr. Alfred W. Tatum Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University Learn More

For more information on Muhammad Ali and the Muhammad Ali Center, please visit www.alicenter.org.

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