The Optimist Club of Coralville, Iowa has been teaching literacy skills to elementary schools for twenty-nine years. They have also been teaching students to catalogue the books they read and creating competions for them to report and share their learning experiences. The students design bookmarks, write book reports and earn the praise and support of the Optimist Club members for all of their effort.
About 2,400 third and fourth grade students will participate in the program this year. Chairperson Mary Larew beleives that the program is important. She explained, “Particularly now in the days of all the Internet and the gaming, we still want to see kids enjoy reading and make it a habit. It’s something you’ll have with you all of your life, to pick up a book and enjoy it.”
Thanks to the Coralville Optimist Club for sharing the Good Reader Program with us.
