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 | Sep 22, 2013 | Organization Updates
Its always about leadership. Two leaders who work at Burns and McDonnell, Doug Dietrich and Tom Anderson took the first step, engaging with some hungry readers in KC’s urban core with Lead to Read KC last school year. Tom Anderson heard about Lead to Read at his...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 30, 2012 | Children's Development
By David Williams With this being my 3rd year of participating in Lead to Read, I can’t help but smile thinking of the smiling young faces as we walk into the classrooms each week. But I also think about how the children’s reading abilities progress from the beginning...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 30, 2012 | Organization Updates
By Jeff Oddo In April of 2011 I invited Lynn and Jean Rundle to speak to City Wide Maintenance staff about the Lead to Read program, which was just completing its trial year. The first year trials had shown test score improvements in participating students, and the...
