Literacy
Literacy at FMCS
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
