Skip to content

Students at Raft River celebrate Literacy Week

Literacy Week at Raft River School was all about the Joy of Reading!
29948clearwaterLiteracy0749AliyaBieber
Clearwater Secondary School student Aliya Bieber reads to students at Raft River Elementary during Literacy Week last week.

Laura Pickering

Literacy Week at Raft River School was all about the Joy of Reading! We celebrated daily with our “literacy detectives” challenge. During the morning announcements, two passages from well-known books were read to all students, one aimed for older readers, one geared toward younger readers. Each class tried to identify the book and author from each brief passage. The students loved discussing which book it was, who the author could be, and how they know – great connecting to books.

Every child kept a book nearby at all times because each day, at an unexpected moment, a chime would ring and we would all DEAR – Drop Everything And Read. Kids love to choose what they read.

We are especially grateful to our community volunteers and the CSS Physics 11/12 class. Community members came and read to specific classes at prearranged times to share their love of literacy. We’d like to thank John Harwood, Jean Nelson, Darren Coates, Kay Knox, Barb Ferguson, Sabine Cooperman, Katrina Link, Stephan Christianson, and Turid Milton for sharing their time and inspiration with the students and staff of Raft River School.

On Thursday students from Mr. Coates’ Grade 11/12 Physics class came to read to students in K-1. We appreciate Principal Coates and his students for their participation in Literacy Week. We also thank the Literacy collaboration group for planning and implementing the week. Well done!

 

Literacy Week was a very special time to celebrate something we strive to teach, enrich, and enjoy with each child every day- the love of reading, understanding, connecting, imagining, predicting, and learning.