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Celebrate Literacy Week 2012
at Bartram Trail High School High School artram Trail High School used “Celebrate Literacy Week” to showcase the power and joy of reading to its students.
B Suzy Smith Media Specialist St. Johns, FL 32259 Smiths2@stjohns.k12.fl.us
The week was kicked off with a “Reading Roadmap” that highlighted all the different formats of reading: Facebook, texts, road signs, cereal boxes, magazines, internet articles, homework, and, of course, novels. During lunches, special guests were invited to come to the school and read aloud. The special guests included local authors, business partners, teachers, administrators, county level supervisors, the School Superintendent, and School Board members. The authors shared excerpts from their books that were available to check out in the Media Center as well as other pre-selected items by the Media Specialist. A Literacy Lounge was created for an all day reading program that targeted the intensive reading students. All guest readers had a Guest reader Lou Greco reads to students at BTHS great time as storytellers shared and students served cookies. The program reached across the curriculum for support from the photography classes that created iRead posters and other literature inspired photographs to decorate a Literacy Lounge. The celebration culminated in a school wide focus on reading across the curriculum on the last day as part of the Million Minute Marathon. Each teacher designed a lesson that he or she taught while emphasizing reading within his or her specific subject area. This was a great cooperative effort by the Literacy Committee that consisted of the Media Specialist, Guidance Counselor, Instructional Literacy Coach, school secretary, and two art teachers. This committee reached out to the teachers, administration, county school officials, community members and business partners to bring about a group effort to put reading in the spotlight. All had an enormous amount of fun, and Bartram Trail looks forward to the next annual Celebrate Literacy Week.
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