Love-to-Read Week in D200 Schools

Abraham Lincoln: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Mark Twain: "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Woodstock District 200 will sponsor its Love to Read Week during February 9-13, and more than 100 reading volunteers are needed.

This is the 18th annual Love to Read Week. The purpose of the program, which is held every year to coincide with Valentine’s Day, is to show students the importance of reading as a lifelong skill by having adults share how they enjoy and use reading in their daily lives.

A volunteer form is available on the District's homepage at www.WoodstockSchools.org or you can pick one up at the Library, D200 headquarters or at any elementary or middle school.

Good additional places for volunteer sign-up forms would be City Hall and Read Between the Lynes Bookstore on the Square.

My only question about the program is why are volunteers reading to middle school students, who are in 6th, 7th and 8th grades? Don't they know how to read yet? Haven't they learned the importance of reading? If they haven't, what's missing in the first years of a student's school life?