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Calling All Senses: Help Me Read!

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

In a small room within the teacher's lounge, Southeast Elementary School fourth-grader Aubrianna Vernon focused on the consonant blend, "spr." With her index finger,...

Speaking Poetry Helps Students Share their Hearts

Northview School News Network

Katie Mitchell could have picked from a range of interesting topics to share with classmates, but she choose the one closest to her heart. The...

Rx for Better Readers: the Doctor is IN

All Districts Erin Albanese

Parkview Elementary first-grader Marquis Morgan grabbed a book from a bin containing those written at his reading level. He began paging through "There Was...

Building a Band Program, From Squeaks to Symphonic

Cedar Springs School News Network

If you talk to a sixth-grader or a high school senior from Kent City's band program, you will hear a similar story. For first-chair...

Club Subtracts Fear from Math

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Diamond Sparkman softly counts aloud as she measures the sides of a polygon displayed on a computer screen, trying to determine its area. “Seven...

Teens See Their Lives Mirrored in Reading List

Godwin Heights Erin Albanese

When students say reading doesn't interest them, Godwin Heights High School English teacher Jessica Molloy steps up to her new book collection. She makes...

Bus Driver Turns Daily Ride into Reading Time

Sparta Adrian Hirsch

When Jenna Rykse saw pictures of students reading on a bus during a Reading Now Network conference, the Sparta Area Schools Reading Specialist knew...

New Technology Helps Kindergartners with Math

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary kindergartner Charlotte Kanaan stood beside teacher Shannon Mitchell and worked through a math problem, which her classmates could see thanks to a...

Kinetic Combo: Students Find Reading Cadence

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Clark VanDop was engrossed in a book about poisonous animals called “That’s Deadly.” But while his brain was soaking up information about creepy critters,...

Closing the Word Gap

Cedar Springs Charles Honey

When a home visitor from school told Jessie Kent that she could read books to her son Michael, she had her doubts. How could...

Schools Learn New Ways to Teach Reading

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Collaboration is the way forward, say leaders of West Michigan's Reading Now Network. Teachers teaching other teachers, more staff with reading expertise, and learning...

Book Speed-Dating: Finding the Perfect Read

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center High School sophomore Lexi Hess may have found her perfect match. She plucked the book, The Star Won't Go Out, by Esther Grace...

The Rhythm of the Words

The Road to Reading Erin Albanese

Oriole Park Elementary Schools students walked, tiptoed and froze on cue to classical music during a half-hour singsong session filled with music exercises based...

Students Read What They Love, Develop Literacy Skills

Byron Center Erin Albanese

West Middle School eighth-grade students Anja Whitehouse and Katie Townley are definitely what you would call "readers." They finish one book to start another,...

Summer Learning Can Mean Big Fun

All Districts Erin Albanese

Educators across Kent County are making efforts to curb summer-learning loss, the tendency for students to lose ground on what they've learned during the...

Teacher Hosts Weekly Library Days to Keep Students Reading This Summer

The Road to Reading Erin Albanese

Oriole Park Elementary School teacher Ginger VanderBeek scanned the shelves in the children's section at the Wyoming branch of Kent District Library for books...

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