April 19, 2024

Clarke Middle School Students Soaring in Steps of Reading

Pictured are students who have read 200 or more steps this school year for over 50 hours of reading. Front row from left are Daniela Arellano, Masan Redman, Mallory Tidman, Essa Jones, Honour Bryan, Sullivan White, Maahir Desai and Austin Stoll. Middle row from left are Miranda Rosales, Victoria Rosales, Lilliana Contreras, Ahnyka Hewlett, Maisy McCoy, Josie Moore, Abbie Schlichte and Angela Mendez-Rivera. Back row from left are Samual Hamilton, Izzy Hay, Micheal Simmons, Andrew Martinez, Rodrigo Hernandez, Alejandra Ventura-Castenada, Izzy Banales-Flores, Macayla Hicks, Dylan Struble, Emily Glenn and Miah Graves. Not pictured are Danika McCloney, Alicia Davalos and Paige Gilbert.

Clarke Middle School is so proud of the time and effort the students and teachers have put into their practice of reading during the school day and outside of the school day. On the walls of Clarke Middle School are pink, orange and blue reading logs celebrating the students’ progress towards meeting their goal of reading 800 steps this school year, four steps each day (two steps at school and two steps at home).

“The quantity of trade book reading is the best single predictor of test score performance and success in schools, and is a better predictor than either socioeconomic factors or parental education (pg. 11).” - Terrance Paul, Patterns of Reading Practice, 1996.

Pictured are students who have read between 100 and 199 steps this year for over 25 hours of reading. Front row from left are Bryce Giza, Cole Jacobsen, Levi White, Blaze Bryant, Ali Hartman, Gracie Mathes, Paisley VanWinkle, Lily Cook and Cael Wisniewski. Middle row from left are Angelina Pedro-Francisco, Rociel Perez, Sadie Coates, Mariana Cisneros, Daisy Escudero, Gisell Salinas, Savannah Leonard, Maizy Irving, Chloe Jacobsen, Julia Cline, Alivia Toney, Joey Turpin, Dwight Humphrey, Edwin Gomez-Perez and Jacob Barajas. Back row from left are Cesar Cisneros Ambriz, Angel Torres, Juan Lopez, Liliana Landeros-Rosales, Angela Zargoza- Rosales, Jocelyn Carrera-Regalado, Jack Myers, Rafael Avalos, Remington McCoy, Resse Shaw, Ximena Zayago Yepez, Alexandria Tolentino, Ethan Danley and Tony Francisco.

A step is 15 minutes of consecutive, uninterrupted reading. Clarke Middle School students who have read 100 steps, have read a total of 1,500 minutes or 25 hours. Students who have read 200 or more steps have read more than 50 hours. Anytime that students are reading they are increasing their vocabulary, enhancing their background knowledge in different content and exploring different ways that authors write in order to inform their own writing. Students are encouraged to explore different genres in order to expand their abilities to generalize about specific genres.

“Please continue to ask the children in your life about the books they are reading, talk with them about your favorite books or types of reading you do and encourage them to continue to read as much as they can,” said Joni Readout.