School: Kearney High School
Class: Instructional English
Instructor: Sherry Crall
Client: Kearney Middle School and Kearney Junior High School
Problem: What aspects of a summer reading program are needed to encourage and increase student participation, and how can the program help to prevent the summer slide in reading skills?
Summary of Project
Students researched successful summer reading programs including the activities and requirements, promotions, and incentives to develop a new summer reading program for our secondary students. Suggestions were also taken from student surveys administered to Kearney students.
Key Takeaways or Advice
This has been an extremely rewarding project for everyone involved. Our Instructional English students would not have had an opportunity to work on a CCP in any other class. From the very first meeting, they had numerous ideas of how to gather information from other libraries and also from the student body. The students embraced the empathy work and after creating a pitch for the clients, delivered it with professionalism and passion. The clients are using nearly all of their ideas and we are so proud of them. We left the first pitch with goosebumps. I believe the skills that our students learned during the project are invaluable and will be used in many other life situations.
Learning Standards
MO Library Standard 2 QI 1 Reading Promotion
MO Library Standard 2 QI 4 Literacy Strategies
ELA Lit Writing
- 11-12.2 Writing ideas, concepts, tasks
- 11-12.4 Email etiquette, writing style, audience
- 11-12.5 Digital Media presentations, using technology to communicate
ELA List/Speaking
- 11-12.1 Initiate/participate in collaborative discussions
- 11-12.4 Presents information, findings, evidence
- 11-12.5 Presenting using digital media tools