Literacy
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Third grade student's poor reading scores had become a major community concern. In response, high school students planned the Health Occupations and America Reads Program to improve reading skills for children in local schools as well as those across the state. Student leaders planned the project and even wrote the grant proposal.
After learning that schools in Honduras lacked books, elementary students wrote letters in Spanish to their peers in Honduras and raised $1,000 to provide books for them.
In partnership with a local book center, students created books recording family stories and traditions. Artists trained the teachers in bookmaking, allowing them to guide their students through the process, and families joined their children to construct and decorate the books.
When students in a town with a Central American sister city learned about "Libros para Ninos" (Books for Children), a program providing books for Central American children, they decided to make and donate handcrafted books. The youths studied simple Spanish vocabulary to write the books, and wrote essays about themselves to accompany the donation.
Concerned about the number of students in her school who were reading below grade level, one principal implemented a multi-grade peer-tutoring program. Both the tutors and the students they helped increased their reading proficiency.
Based on research showing that families who eat dinner together are more likely to be engaged civically in their communities, one elementary school started a program where students would bring home a recipe and ingredients for biscuits and a set of dinner table discussion questions.
