(Clearview Public Schools)

By rdnewsNOW staff

Helping Kids Read

Clearview Public Schools continues to support early reading

Jan 4, 2021 | 3:56 PM

Clearview Public Schools has once again donated new reading books to families with younger children.

District officials say families can receive a book at the Stettler Community Health Center when they are visiting for vaccinations or a check-up, courtesy of your local public school.

Sing a Song of Bedtime by best-selling author and illustrator Barbara Reid is said to be a great book for early learners, with bright and tactile images illustrating a variety of bedtime rhymes and lullabies.

This collection features 14 nursery rhymes to lullabies – perfect to help children enjoy a shared reading as they fall asleep.

“On behalf of all the Public Health Nurses (PHN) in the office, we would like to thank you and Clearview Public Schools for the books for distribution in our clinics,” says Sue Stratulate, Public Health Nurse, in a press release. “We are excited once again to have such a great resource to encourage literacy and language skills in our young families. Please forward our thanks on to any others that are responsible for making this happen.”

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According to Clearview officials, as parents, you are a literacy leader and are your child’s first and most important teacher.

To help strengthen your ability to be a great coach and mentor at home, Clearview officials encourage you to also see the great tips for parents created by Edmonton Public.

Reading just 15 minutes a day sees an average of more than a million words a year. Reading with your children every day is among the most important things you can do to help them succeed.

Children whose parents are involved with them in family literacy activities score 10 points higher on standardized reading tests.

Officials say literacy is at the foundation of successful learning and living and is an active, life-long process. It begins almost from birth, when our parents first start reading to us and develops over our whole lives.

Literacy is said to be more than basic reading and writing skills. District officials say literacy education at Clearview Public Schools is about helping students find ways to make sense of the world by acquiring, understanding and communicating information in a variety of ways.

Clearview has adopted a balanced literacy approach. Balanced literacy encompasses three crucial areas which are to be done each day – reading, writing and working with books.

In each of these areas, teachers begin with direct instruction and gradually release responsibility to students so they can become successful independent learners. In all three areas, students are making connections to self, text and word.

Clearview is also using STAR Reading Screen. STAR reading guides the division’s K – 12 students to greater reading growth with outcomes-based computer adaptive assessments that measure students’ reading comprehension, monitor achievement and growth.

For more information on literacy and your child’s learning successes, see also https://www.clearview.ab.ca/Literacy.php