Building Your Buddy’s Confidence as a Reader You can probably think of times in your life where being less skilled at something that others seemed to be able to do quite well made you feel inadequate or inferior. Many students experience similar feelings when they recognize they are not reading
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Executive Director’s Note – January 2019
“If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.“ -Unknown Well, the earth has made another trip around the sun and we find ourselves once again beginning the journey
Reading Buddy Tip of the Month: Back from Winter Break and Ready to Read
After two weeks off from school, many children lose some reading proficiency, particularly if they did not do much recreational reading over the break. For your first session back, you may consider choosing books from a lower reading level or re-reading a book you read before the break to help
February 2018 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – February 2018 A Note from Our Executive Director “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to man not to have grown up among books.” – Abraham Lincoln
Executive Director’s Note- December 2017
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?-Dr. Seuss I know that all of you are feeling this way this time of the year. I am for sure. Wasn’t it just yesterday that
Executive Director’s Note- August 2017
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”-Voltaire Just a short note this month to comment on the warm feeling I experience every time I see pictures of children frolicking in the cool water of summer and their expressions of pure unadulterated
Executive Director’s Note- February 2016
We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel again as we move into the second semester. The shift in grade level improvement we have seen throughout the course of the year gives us the information we need to know the effort is worth it (see last year’s graph results