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Digging into Reading
Former
Cuivre
Park
Elementary
Librarian Lori Horner, now a district
Technology Integration Teacher, and
Boone and Lincoln Elementary Librarian
Nichole Bryant reached beyond the
school year, and in some instances
district boundaries, to promote literacy.
The two librarians received more than
$7,000 through a Library Services and
Technology grant to open a district
library for eight weeks out of the summer
speci?cally
targeting
underserved
kindergarten to 5th grade students in
seven local daycares and Pike and Lincoln
County foster and adoptive children.
Through the grant, the R-III
District picked up kids from
Asbury Methodist Daycare, Growing Tree
Preschool, First Step Preschool, Teeter
Totter Learning Center, Academy Too,
First Baptist Extended Daycare and Smart
Start Learning Center. Approximately
120 school aged kids visited the library
to participate in the four week programs
in June and July at Boone Elementary
School. For four hours each week,
children from local daycares dug into
extensive literacy programs centering on
the theme “Dig into Summer Reading.”
Each four week program included family
nights to give children the opportunity to
share their experiences with parents and
other family members.
Research spanning 100 years shows
that students typically score lower on
standardized tests at the end of summer
vacation than they do on the same tests
at the beginning of the summer (White,
1906; Heyns, 1978; Entwisle & Alexander 1992;
Cooper, 1996; Downey et al, 2004).
• Don’t limit summer reading to books.
Magazines and funny pages in the newspaper are
good options for kids.
• Allow your child to choose books for
summer reading. The excitement of visiting
a local library and book store is often the
encouragement a child needs to gain interest in
reading.
• Make connections with reading. Reading
together with your child helps to encourage
connections with the text. Select books that relate
to something you will be doing. For instance, if
you plan to go camping, find a camping book to
share with your child.
• Read aloud with your reader. Reading
aloud with your child, no matter their age, helps
to build vocabulary and promotes fluency and
reading with expression at any age.
• Be sure that your child is reading books
at a comfortable level. Listen to your child
read and be sure he is reading smoothly and with
expression. Use the 5 finger rule for selecting
books: 4 or 5 mistakes out of about 50 words
probably means the text is too challenging.
• Do some reading yourself. When your child
What can you do?
sees you reading, whether it is the newspaper, a
magazine, or directions to put together a barbecue
grill, he learns that reading can be important and
useful.
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