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The Road to Reading

The Road to Reading series explores some of the reading activities you’ll find in our schools as well as difficulties students may face when learning to read. The series also examines early childhood ties to literacy and new initiatives to help all children read.

Tips to Parents: How to Help Your Child’s Reading

All Districts Erin Albanese

Plenty of books in the house. Nightly story time. Exposure to words, words and more words. Those are three components that help a child develop...

Schools Gear Up to Prepare for Third-Grade Reading Law

All Districts Erin Albanese

During a recent Literacy Night at Oriole Park Elementary School, teachers dressed like superheroes, activating their powers to help parents best support their children’s...

High-Achieving Reading: How One School Does It

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Brown Elementary School fourth-grader Layla Funk looked up from the book she was reading to consider the question: “How has your school helped you...

Revving Up Reading, Writing with Workshops

Byron Center Erin Albanese

A renaissance of reading and writing is going on at West Middle School, where teachers say students are indulging in books they love more...

Better Teaching for Better Readers

Caledonia Erin Albanese

Before beginning a lesson on weather and climate at Kraft Meadows Middle School, Anita Archer took a moment to talk to each of the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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