Literacy program encourages students to read, avoid summer slide
Davion Thomas didn’t like to read. It was challenging, not interactive and not his idea of fun.
Then things changed when the 13-year-old Whitehorse Middle School student began reading books that taught him things he could relate to in his seventh-grade literacy class, and he joined a summer program that allowed him to make short films on an iPad about the books he’s read.
“At first I didn’t like reading, but now I enjoy it,” said Davion, who will be in eighth grade when school starts Sept. 3. “I think what really made me enjoy reading more was the fact that I was getting a
reward for doing it, but also keeping my brain working during the summer.”
