Burlington School News: Mentoring program is a long-standing reading tradition

 

March 16, 2018

Senior Jazmine Vest mentors fourth-grade student Laura Brown in reading.

Every Wednesday during Stop, Drop & Read (SDR), you will find older students and younger students paired throughout the school reading together. The Burlington mentoring program provides reading assistance to the fourth- and fifth-grade students. Upperclassmen encourage and help the younger students by pronouncing words that are too hard for them to read. Mentoring also helps the students interact with one another.

Mentoring is organized by Student Council sponsor Jennifer Newlin, who also assigns the mentors to the younger students. The program also helps the elementary students find...



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