From the first day of school, the teachers at Jack Hulland School make time for looking at books, listening to books, talking about ideas and people in books, learning how to read and simply, reading. Our students are invited to fall in love with books, see themselves as readers, spend significant time reading and establish the habits of a reader. The richness of their early experiences as readers will serve them well their whole lifetimes.
Children read in order to become smarter about the world and how it works. They read to broaden their vocabularies and to become better readers – faster and more fluent, purposeful and engaged, critical, and satisfied. They read to stretch their imaginations, to escape to other lives, times, and places. And they read to become knowledgeable about and compassionate toward the range of human experience.
The choices of books available to kids today are so wonderful that reading makes for joyful homework. If your child hasn’t already taken that step into reading for joy, the more they are encouraged to read by teachers and parents, the more they will begin to choose to read for pleasure.
Here, within the Reading Zone, you will begin to find books to share with your child as we bring you web sites of highly recommended books and books recommended by Jack Hulland teachers and students alike.
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