If you read the KC Star Editorial page today, it said “KC becomes a national model in boosting third-grade reading” (Kansas City Star, May 18, 2016, P 6A). The recognition comes from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Ralph Smith who presented the award to Mayor James...
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Our blog is like a choose-your-own-adventure book, with a great Lead to Read KC story on every page. Read recent posts and explore an archive dating back to 2012.
“CHECK IN” at your school
Sharing another simple way to spread the word about Lead to Read. Simply use the “check in” feature on Facebook when you arrive or depart from your school each week. This allows your social media circles to be cued into how you’re spending you time and challenge them...
Lead to Read is Getting Down to Business
“I’m saving you money!” That’s the conclusion I came to recently when I was talking with a group of employees at a local company about becoming Readers for Lead to Read. Many of the employees said their lunch hour is often spent shopping on the internet or dropping...
Lead to Read Teachers self-report the benefits of having Readers*
Students are EXCITED about reading Positive experience provided by 1:1 relationships Students are motivated, engaged and interested in reading Any type of reading that we can get our kids to do is great (reading, listening and discussing) Adding to the excitement of...
Meet Pauly Hart
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...
Reading and Comprehension Strategies
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...