By Katie Wilson
FAIRMONT — Reading is the most important skill for any child.
Those who can read don’t really think about all the daily activities that require reading. Everything from deciphering road signs or completing your grocery shopping to finding out about current events via the newspaper requires a basic knowledge of reading.
At the earliest levels, children are learning to read, but later, they’re reading to learn — gleaning facts and figures from textbooks, articles and even the Internet.
At second grade, students are just on the borderline between the two. While they’re beginning to read passages in their textbooks and answer questions about what they’ve read, they’re still working on fluency and comprehension. That means they’re just beginning to read sentences and paragraphs without stumbling over words and the students are learning to understand what they’ve read.
That’s an important place in the learning process for every child and part of the reason why teacher Crystal Miller wanted to teach that grade level.
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