A reading program at Westwood School has been seeing positive results.

During last week’s school board meeting, teachers from the school made a presentation about “Later Literacy”. The program was launched less than 2 years ago in response to students not reading at the grade level they should be. At the time over 50% of gr.8 students were not reading and writing at a gr.8 level.

The literacy program puts identified gr.7 and 8 students through daily 20 minute reading sessions with a Resource Teacher or an Instructional Educational Assistant for 6 weeks.  

Students have moved up multiple grade levels thanks to the program, with one student moving up 4 grade levels since the program started last year.