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Vision 2007/08
This is a short video about Park School's vision. If Park School is known for only one thing it should be for their quality reading programs. Park School (4 th and 5 th grade only) offers quality programs for high readers, low readers, and in-between-readers. Besides our daily 90-minute Success for All Reading program, we offer Academy of Reading and Accelerated Reader. In addition, we are certain that we have the best librarian in Idaho! In the last 5 years our students have increased library circulation and their AR reading points (mostly outside of school reading) each year. We were thrilled 5 years ago when our students reached an average of 55 AR points per student for the year. Since then, our average AR points per student has improved dramatically each year: ‘03—55, ‘04—61, ‘05—73, ‘06—100, ‘07—124.
As a kickoff activity for setting high goals and dreaming big, all Park students and staff worked together to accomplish our first goal of 05-06: to reach all the way around our School by holding hands. Kurt Pengelly, Rick Haynes and our local Simplot Company provided the hot air balloon to try to photograph the completed circle from high above the school. Balloonists were some of the biggest dreamers in early aviation and this spirit of flying high and accomplishing lofty goals is what Park School constantly strives to achieve.
The National Children's Literacy Website has a great list of suggested tips that parents can do to help support the reading growth of their children. These are general suggestions, meant to be useful for almost any child. There may be other things your child's teacher will want you to do that are focused on the specific needs of your child.
All of these suggestions come from research on the way children learn to read. If you do some of them regularly in a motivating and supportive way, they will help your child make faster progress in learning to read. Many of these activities, such as those that build vocabulary and teach children to think while they read, will also help your child ultimately be a much better reader than he or she might otherwise become. more information
Vision 2007/08 
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