The Best Years

Early years of reading instruction are crucial because success or failure during these years is a strong predictor of later success. For example, Cunningham and Stanovich (1997) examined reading skills of first graders, and ten years later, they reached half of the same students and administered their reading abilities. They discovered that first grade reading skill had significant influence on the 11th grade reading ability. Therefore, reading problems should be solved during the early years.…

Steve is currently a sophomore at Euclid High School who enrolled in Euclid City Schools August 14, 2015. Steve has earned 75% and above in all of his class this year except Geometry where he earned a 60% the first quarter. Steve improved his Geometry grade the second quarter earned a 79% (C+); however, his grade in Geometry dropped the third quarter to below a 60%. His current accumulative grade point average is a 2.59. He continues to earn above a 2.5 except for the third quarter where his GPA…

Plenty of fun activities are planned in downtown Seymour like the World's Largest Hamburger Parade, the Bun Run, the Kids' Run, music, games for kids, a Burger Eating Contest and a Giant Ketchup Slide. This year in the parade, Pulaski’s Red Raider Marching Band will join in and march, too. A car show, railroad depot and community museum are also open to see during the festival. In a separate section of the festival at Rock Ledge School and Park, there is a…

Dear [First Name], I’m going to tell you something you probably never expected to hear. For the first time in Iron Tribe’s seven year history, we’re introducing a brand new workout program. It’s called PUSH, and if you’d like to know what your fellow Tribe members think about it, then listen in… “…I’m burning more calories with the new PUSH program than I did in the regular glasses, and I’m enjoying the workouts a lot more, too…” “…I think the new PUSH workouts are fantastic, and my…

seventy two book pages. Also one other cool fact that you may not know is that is has eighty four thousand three hundred and twenty words in it. It took me about 3 months to read the whole entire book. I was actually going to read it in my tenth grade year but I didn’t want to read that much then haha. What I learned from The Scarlet Letter is they were very super strict back then in that day of time. This woman is named Hester Prynne, and she is marked with a scarlet letter because she commit…

I walked up the steps, only to see several students scattered everywhere confused. It was loud, as I trudged through them to get to my locker. I had nothing organized and had no idea where any of my friends were. Standing there wishing summer wasn’t over. I didn’t know if I could handle the middle school. Slowly I turn myself around. There I was, a new sixth grader at Port Clinton Middle School terrified, yet hopeful. I was excited that I was finally in the middle school, but also extremely…

expect were that the teachers would be more strict and that the work would be more challenging than in sixth. Throughout the year I was able to get to know the teachers and learn that most were very nice and that I had nothing to worry about. The work was a little more challenging than in sixth but it’s supposed to be. One of the highlights of my seventh grade school year is that I played basketball. At the beginning of seventh grade I was able to play school basketball. I had an awesome time…

As I opened the book, a tiger attached to a boy with spiky blond hair bounced off the page, greeting me and the second grader sitting on the floor next to me. My finger touched the blank space right below the type, prompting Sawyer, my “Little Buddy,” to breathe the words on the page. He managed to choppily enunciate the words he saw, but the toothy smile he gave me when he was done reading the comic displayed a much deeper understanding than his initial speech had indicated. Quickly, I…

SOUTHERN TIER (WENY) Last year the Southern Tier received nearly $80.8 million dollars in funding through the New York State Regional Economic Development Council initiative. As we get closer to the end of the year, WENY wanted to know if that money has been used and how. As a way to boost economic growth throughout the state, Governor Andrew Cuomo created a funding program that would cover 20 percent of the cost of the project if you qualify. Last year the Southern Tier received nearly 81…

Once I was old enough to join my sisters at the Montessori school, I went there for my second year of pre-school. By the end of this year my oldest sister was in the fourth grade and my mom could not find a middle school with a strong enough education for her, so she decided to home school all three of us. During my kindergarten year as a true homeschooler my mom found a virtual school that would guide her through teaching us in a more effective way with a curriculum…