"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." - Emilie Buchwald
Goal:
To promote a stronger literacy environment for everyone from infants to adults. Through
our work, we hope to foster the development of a lifelong love of reading and
writing within members of the Campbell County community.
Component Managers:
Linda Alford, Connie Pohlgeers
Current initiatives that the committee is developing
and implementing: Literacy for Life
Campbell County Schools has partnered with St. Luke and St. Elizabeth hospitals
to send a newsletter, a letter from the district and a picture book to parents
of newborn babies residing in Campbell County. The newsletter will define and
inform parents about development milestones and will give parents access to resources
that promote a strong literacy environment. The parents will receive a
letter from the district introducing them to brain research and the Building
Better Brains initiative. They will also receive a paperback book to promote
literacy at home. The partner hospitals have agreed to mail these items
to the parents four times a year.
Five CCS instructional staff members have undergone training on dialogic reading. These
staff members are qualified to train parents, teachers and daycare providers
within the learning community on this reading technique. Dialogic Reading
is a technique in which the reader asks questions and/or involve the child in
language opportunities enabling the child to actively become the “teller
of the story.”
Secondary Literacy Team
The literacy team will work to implement the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) into
the middle and high schools. RA is a partnership of expertise between teacher
and student, drawing on what content area teachers know and do as skilled discipline-based
readers and on adolescents’ unique and often underestimated strengths. After
forming the team, training will begin on Reading Apprenticeship. Team members
will model RA in middle and high school content area classrooms in late January. Academic
Literacy Courses will be offered at both the middle school and high school for
the 2004-2005 school year.
Read Across the County
This project will help to promote both excitement and interest in reading among
students, teachers, parents, and community members as we celebrate the 100th
birthday of Dr. Suess. View Photos
Cat in the Hat Lesson Plans (external link)
