Each night, James Durand fills out a form stating the titles of the books his twin girls read.
“My girls are barely in kindergarten and they’re already reading to me,” Durand said. “They pronounce and cite words like ‘cat’ and ‘bat’ with these little wheels with words on them that change the first letter to make simple words.”
Durand, whose girls attend Pine Hill Elementary, is seeing the results of a nationally lauded reading program implemented in Eureka’s South Bay Union School District.
Home to 500 elementary school students, Pine Hill Elementary and South Bay Elementary were nationally recognized by the Success for All Foundation for their achievements in reading.
With the implementation of the Success for All model, 80 percent of all kindergarten, first- and second-graders were reading at or above grade level by the end of the 2015-16 school year, according to a news release...
....The district’s reading facilitator for the Success for All model and English Language Coordinator Shawna Storts, said the program was used years ago in the school system and the district decided to revisit it after researching methods to improve adverse childhood experiences.
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