Title 1 Information

Mrs. Redd’s Reading Club News

Welcome to Reading Club! I am pleased to continue as the Title 1 teacher at Hamel and Midway Schools this year. I will be at Midway School from 8-3:45 on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and at Hamel School from 8-3:45 on Monday and Wednesday. Be sure to contact me by note, phone or e-mail if you need to talk to me or have any questions.

The Illinois Reading Council gives these "Top 10 Reasons to Read to Your Children":

1. When you hold them and give them this attention, they know you love them.

2. Reading to children will encourage them to become readers.

3. Children’s books today are so good that they are fun even for adults.

4. Children’s book illustrations often rank with the bet, giving children a lifelong feeling for good art.

5. Books are one way of passing on your moral values to them.

6. Until they learn to read to themselves, they will think you are magic.

7. Every teacher and librarian they ever encounter will thank you.

8. It’s nostalgic.

9. For that short space and time, they will stay clean and quiet.

10. If you do, they may then let you read in peace.

Bob Chase, former National Education Assoc. President says, "We know firsthand that children who are read to at home have a higher success rate at school." Thank-you for all you do to read every day with your child.

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