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First Grade Teacher Amy Oades of Lakewood Elementary in the Blue Valley School District loves to read. Her students do, too. They also love to make cards, so they started a Kindness Cards business, making cards and selling them to people in their community. The...
More than 200 Lead to Read KC supporters celebrated a great year of reading at Freedom Interiors’ fabulous showroom during our Spring Into Happy event. Thank you to all who attended! Special thanks to our event sponsors: Amigoni Urban Winery, CBIZ, ConvergeOne,...
Lead to Read KC is pleased to be partnering with local children’s therapist and author Vladimir Sainte to share his new book Just Like a Hero with our partner schools. This initiative is made possible with support from Reading Mentor Jacob Schwartz and a generous...
What Are Sight Words? Sight Words are whole words that appear frequently in most of the texts kids read, but cannot be easily sounded out. Like you, your student runs into Sight Words over and over, and may see them in print dozens of times in a single day. So,...
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Fluent readers read aloud as if they are speaking. Readers who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word. Fluent readers can group words quickly to help them gain meaning...
Here are a few ideas to engage your student in conversation — and tips to keep the conversation going! Questions: If you could tell me just ONE thing about you, what would you want me to know? What do you like to do for fun? What is most fun about school? What is...