February 9th, 2014

“Shhhh”, is what you might normally expect to hear in the library.  But on Friday, February 7th, there was clapping and cheering in our library as a group of kindergarten students celebrated their Strong Start successes.   For the past ten weeks, a group of seven students have been working one on one with their volunteer coaches; strengthening their knowledge of letters and sounds through the  games and fun activities of the “Letters, Sounds, and Words.  A Strong Start to Reading program”.  The Strong Start programmes use short games/activities to provide repetition to help children recognize letters; their corresponding sounds; and how to build and recognize sight words.   The programmes rely on the commitment of volunteers to coach each child, once per week (per programme strand), for ten weeks.  A huge thanks goes out to the volunteer coaches here at NLW who have made this commitment to support or early learners.

It uses short games/activities to provide repetition to help young children recognize letters, a sound each one represents, how to learn words by sight and how to learn a word by using the sounds of its letters. – For more information about Strong Start visit their website at:

http://www.strongstart.ca/#sthash.c9nJ9j7o.dpufb

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