Strategies Help Students in Reading at High School Level
By Peggy Mailen
February 01, 2010
Several strategies have been implemented at Jefferson County North High School to enable our students to achieve adequate yearly progress in reading. Mr. Gish and Mr. Mailen both meet with students several days per week during seminar period to work on reading strategies. The English teachers are using a variety of techniques to improve reading comprehension. Mrs. Mailen is teaching a reading class to freshmen. The course has several goals: to increase student knowledge of vocabulary, to improve reading comprehension, to increase oral reading fluency, and to nurture a love of reading for enjoyment. The students in the class have enjoyed reading and discussing several novels in terms of setting, characters, theme and conflict.
Students may be placed in the high school reading class based on Kansas reading assessment scores, standardized testing such as the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test scores, teacher recommendations and/or Student Improvement Team recommendations. If you would like more information concerning any of these programs, please call Mr. Bedigrew at the high school office at 913-774-8515.
