A few stories from the Skinner Magnet Center:
Ms Lemons conducts a book club with her class where they read together everyday and also have a weekly meeting outside of class for any 5th graders that want to attend & discuss books. She even has several 3rd and 4th grade students involved in that weekly meeting who are able to read at a 5th grade level. Ms Lemons mentioned when she started her school year many of her students were reading below 5th grade, even as low as 2nd grade. Now she has them all reading at 5th grade level because of the focus on books in her club. The teachers are very thankful for all the literacy aids and books Rotary provides to their students.
Ms Chauni, the school librarian, let us know that the Dictionaries for the 3rd graders were her favorite project this year. She was able to give workshops to the 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students on how to use them even though only the 3rd graders got to keep the books. She said in most cases the books were used by the whole family. In one instance a single-parent father has 9 children who were all able to benefit from the dictionary. Rotary's dollars were well spent on the dictionary project.
