Longview School - Being Creative With Reading

In celebration of Family Literacy Week January 23rd - 27th and in the spirit of our Soaring Literacy Program at Longview School, a number of literacy activities were planned and enjoyed by everyone including:

• Students enjoyed extra library time with Ms. Dyck all week, to participate in a variety of literacy activities including playing scrabble on an oversized game board.
• All students had the opportunity to visit the Village of Longview Library to explore everything (books and programs) that our community library has to offer. The students very much enjoyed this field trip, with most students indicating that they would be interested in getting library memberships.
• The Grade 5/6 classes had the opportunity to read with the Preschool and Kindergarten classes.
• A number of literacy guests including Mr. Muelaner, Mr. McCorquindale, Mrs. LaDouceur, Mr. Smith, as well as, Longview Seniors, community members and grandparents came to read to Longview students.
• Students dressed-up as one of their favourite fictional book characters and shared their favourite book with other students. Students also had the opportunity to play literary charades.
• Students enjoyed eating alphabet soup for lunch and alphabet letter cookies for dessert.

Literacy has always been the keystone of learning and we want our students to develop a broad and deep range of literacy skills. Learners with strong literacy skills, acquire, create, connect and communicate meaning in a wide variety of contexts. During our Soaring Literacy time at Longview School, students learn different strategies to improve their literacy skills. Teachers have implemented literacy strategies from the book 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins in both our Tier 1/core program, as well as, our Tier 2 Literacy Soars program. “Research shows that students need opportunities to use literacy knowledge and skills in a variety of contexts to master and efficiently transfer them from one area to another.” (Literacy First: A Plan for Action 2010: Government of Alberta)
A big thank you is extended to Ms. Dyck, our amazing Librarian, for the absolutely wonderful job she did in organizing literacy week at Longview School. It was a very busy and active week, which students really enjoyed! When I asked the students their favourite part of the week, most indicated going to the Village Library and dressing up as a character from a book.