Beaver Dam Middle School has created a way to add reading at the beginning of the school day.
The Reading Responders initiative is the brainchild of three teachers at BDMS; Angie Vessey, Katie Schwartz and Paul Friedemann. Students spend 21 minutes of homeroom time in Reading Responders Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
“Reading Responders is the process that was implemented beginning in the 2014-’15 school year as a data-driven decision to support students in the area of reading, specifically in the area of nonfiction text,” Schwartz said. “The concept was to build on the idea that students who had more specific instruction and more time spent reading nonfiction would be more successful readers.”
“You can learn words that you didn’t know before and use them in proper sentences,” Niece said.