Literacy

At FMCS we are very focused on not only teaching our students to learn to read, but helping them to develop a lifelong love of reading as well.

Some of our current strategies include:

• The Time to Read Club
• Comfortable Student Reading Nooks
• Books and Blankets
• Super Hero Reading Club
• Library challenges
• Read with the Principal Program
• Daily DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) Time
• Student School Wide Book Swap  
• Monday Read Aloud
• School Literacy Team
• All teachers certified in and practising current methodologies including the Balanced Literacy Program
• Language Arts Focus Groups and in class activities
• Partipation in events such as the Guiness Book of World Records Reading Challenge
• Bookfairs
• Linking with Local Agencies
• Author Visits
• Guest Readers
• Intervention Programs