What is the Reading Room?
The Reading Room provides a learning environment where children from Kindergarten through Second Grade come to learn and practice good reading strategies. These strategies will help improve their reading skills by focusing on sight word recognition, fluency and comprehension. This could be for the emergent reader who displays reading readiness and needs to develop phonemic awareness and letter-sound relationships. Or it could be for the upper emergent or early fluent reader who needs to improve their word recognition, comprehension and fluency skills. Reading strategies are taught in the context of guided reading. Guided Reading is at the heart of a balanced literacy program. What is Guided Reading? Guided Reading is a research-based practice which “enables children in a small group to practice reading strategies with a teacher’s support and leads to independent silent reading” (New Zealand Dept. of Education). Guided Reading gives every child the opportunity to develop their reading s
The Reading Room is the section of Special Collections open for research. The Reading Room has tables and chairs for researchers, as well as some reference materials. Special Collections materials are not permitted to leave the Reading Room, thus all Special Collections research must be completed there.
