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By JANE BANGLEY
December has been designated Virginia Reading Month by Governor Charles S. Robb for the third year, and the Rappahannock schools have special plans for the month to encourage students to read. However, Layne Schaeffer, a remedial reading teacher at the elementary school said, "To me every month is reading month.”
A reading competition is being held at the elementary school, and the student in each room who reads the most books from the school or classroom library will receive a new paperback book on December 18. The winning students will select their books from paperback collections.
Schaeffer teaches remedial classes in reading from grade one to three, and her 37 students are referred by classroom teachers or test into the program. Schaeffer said that she tries to make learning skills like phonics Am by putting them into games or puzzles, and the students have free reading during four out of five days when they can pick their own magazine or book to read.
“Every six weeks we have a reading contest for second and third graders,” Shaeffer said. HI plot their progress on charts, and they can win books or a record and book as prizes.” Schaeffer said that she has seen a lot of progress in her students, and especially the first graders. She graduated in May from Radford, and she said that she is “eryoying teaching because I can concentrate on reading and I can help the students quickly with problems.”
Reading is receiving special attention at the high school, too. Several high school groups are planning activities for Reading Month. Social studies classes will be reading books, newspapers and magazine articles on social issues and problems, current events and historical topics. The students wjU then make reports and critiques J# share with their classes.
The school library will sponsor a
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