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How to Make Your Child a Better Book Worm
Description
Superintendent Godfrey sits down with two long-time Jordan School District elementary school teachers to ask the questions we hear from parents all the time. When is the right time to start reading to children and how can parents help students develop a love for reading?
But first, Superintendent Godfrey heads to South Jordan Elementary School where he talks to second-grade students about their favorite books and why they love to read.
Audio Transcription
Welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. Today, we're going to talk about reading and literacy. We'll talk about the best time for parents to get their children started reading and ways parents can help instill a lifelong love of reading in children. But first we head out to South Jordan Elementary School to talk to some second grade students about the books they enjoy. I'm the Superintendent for Jordan SchoolDistrict. You guys know what that means. Anybody have a guess.
Student:
You like, listen to kids, read.
Superintendent Godfrey:
I like to listen to kids read, that's right. You saw me doing that when I came in. Good job. What's your name?
Student:
Maddie
Student:
Maddie you're in second grade. What do you like to read Maddie?
Maddie:
About unicorns.
Superintendent Godfrey:
You like to read about unicorns, fiction or nonfiction. Oh, okay. And Liam, what do you like to read?
Student:
Lego books.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Lego books. So like how to build stuff or stories about Lego creatures and vehicles and stuff? Tell me about.
Student:
Like lion guys, like creatures and they have like these kinds of vehicles and they teleport through portals and a few bad guys.
Superintendent Godfrey:
So are they animals or people?
Student:
Animals.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Animals with Lego vehicles that go through portals. That sounds pretty exciting.
Student:
I like to read informational books about space.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Informational books, about space. Do you hope to conquer space as an astronaut or what's the plan?
Student:
Not really.
Superintendent Godfrey:
What do you like to read?
Student:
I like to eat Scooby Doo books.
Superintendent Godfrey:
You know, I can do a Scooby Doo impression, but it's not really impression of what's in the book bcCause that's just words on a page, right?
Student:
Yeah.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Watch the cartoon.
Student:
Yeah.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Okay. You want to hear it? You want to see what to do it?
Student:
That's pretty good.
Superintendent Godfrey:
Thanks. Sorry to interrupt you guys, but thanks for letting me talk with you.
Thanks to the second grade students at South Jordan Elementary, we had a lot of fun talking to them and reading with them during our visit there.
Now we're back in studio with Laurie McCarty, a teacher at Terra Linda Elementary School and Bonnie Loki, a teacher and instructional coach at Heartland Elementary School. Alright, Bonnie, tell us a little bit about yourself and Lori.
Bonnie:
Bonnie Logan. I'm an instructional coach. I'm located at Heartland Elementary and I love Jordan District. Go, Jordan.
Lori:
I'm Lori McCarty and I have been teaching kindergarten for 21 years. I have one son who went through the Jordan District school system.
Superintendent Godfrey:
So 21 years, that's a lot of five-year-olds. That is awesome.
Teacher:
Yeah, I, they don't advance me. I keep saying I'm in kindergarten. So now they're like 20 years old. This has happened this year. One of my kindergarteners is one of my kindergartner's children. Second generat