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Marshall County Students Begin Reading Program

Elementary school students in Marshall County began a countywide event dedicated to group reading this week.

According to Marshall County Schools literary facilitator Jeannie Blake, Jumpstart’s “Read for the Record” will be observed across the nation on Thursday, although students in Marshall County will be celebrating the annual event all week.

Blake is being assisted by several volunteers in order to reach every student in the county between pre-kindergarten and second grade. Volunteers and substitute teachers, including retired educators for the county, will spend the week reading the children’s book “Quackers,” written by Liz Wong, in several different classrooms across the district daily.

After each presentation, teachers are given book-related activities for students to complete during class. Lessons include an art project, practice in sequencing, comparing and contrasting farms and ponds and a nonfiction writing prompt on farm cats and ducks.

“Jumpstart is a national organization and big corporations are paying for each student who pledges to read, which allows them to purchase books throughout the year,” Blake said. “The nationwide event is on Thursday, but we’re taking up the week to get to each school.”

Center McMechen Elementary School Principal Arica Holt said reading programs are essential to student success in several subjects.

“Reading is essential to every subject that our children learn throughout the day,” Holt said. “I think it’s great that we have members of our community, especially retired school teachers, who are so willing and able to come back and be part of our daily curriculum and the teaching of language arts.”

“Read for the Record” is the world’s largest shared reading experience, bringing together about 2 million people each year in classrooms, libraries, community centers and homes in the United States. The campaign was launched more than a decade ago to highlight the importance of building early literacy and language skills to give children equal opportunities to succeed.

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