by Sarah Gaikwad | Jan 15, 2016 | Organization Updates
Please welcome Pauly Hart to the leadership team, she is our Director of Reader Development. We’re very excited to have her as part of the team. Her goal is rounding up as many readers as we can place in classrooms! On a serious note, her effort will be focusing on...
by Sarah Gaikwad | Jan 12, 2016 | Mentor Tips
We’ve been connecting with our teachers to get some feedback on strategies to best engage their students during our reading sessions. Below are the tips shared by a first grade teacher at Garfield. For the “animal name” strategies not all teachers use the animal names...
by Sarah Gaikwad | Jan 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Recently a teacher suggested the following reading format/outline as help to the volunteers in her room. Consider trying it with your student! Talk about the pictures in the book Scan for obscure vocabulary to preview (ex. ‘machine’ in a book about a farm) Read...
by Sarah Gaikwad | Dec 15, 2015 | Organization Updates
This is our 5th year serving the first and second grade students at Wendell Phillips Elementary (KCPS). We often mention our goal is to be a scaffolding or support for what the teachers are already doing in the classroom. Today I wanted to share with you what one of...
by Sarah Gaikwad | Nov 16, 2015 | Organization Updates
As we enter the season of Thanksgiving and near the end of the semester, we’ve gotten questions of how to engage with the schools & students in additional meaningful ways. First, you are doing this through the time you give each week to come be a part of this...
