Fighting Illiteracy

The High Ability students are working on a large project that focuses on increasing literacy in both Putnam and Owen Counties. To accomplish this goal the students are pursuing group projects that will enhance literacy in all age ranges. Each project is outlined below.

Read to Feed/Book Drive

Seventh grade students will be organizing a two-part service-learning project. Part one will be a Read to Feed program in the Elementary and Middle Schools. The students will pick books that correlate with the classroom topic that we will be studying. The students will then read age appropriate books to students in the lower grades. This will allow the students to understand why we are pulling together to help the county.

The students will then organize a Read-to-Feed Program in the Elementary and Middle Schools. They will be in charge of promoting the program and raising community awareness.

The second part of the service-learning project the students will team with the local doctor’s offices to distribute books to families of low-SES. They will ask the doctors to help identify children who may benefit from books. The students will also organize a book drop off within the school and throughout the local community. The local doctors and community centers will distribute the books that are collected.

Rae's Winter Adventure

For this project the students will research what it takes to write a children’s book. They will use their math and language arts skill to produce and publish their book. Once the book is published the students will use the book for a literacy program in grades Pre-K through 1st.

The students will distribute their book throughout the various Pre-K through 1st grade classrooms. They will also distribute their book to the school library and the public library. The students will set up a reading program with both the school and the local library. They will use their book to help students learn to read.

Adult Literacy

The students will do research to determine, as closely as possible, the number of illiterate adults we have in the Cloverdale population. The students will also look at the variables they feel contribute to the high rate of reading difficulties.

The students will do research on the best way to conduct a tutoring program. They will do this by teaming with the Knoy Center to find information. The students will use this information to design and implement their tutoring program.