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Reading coach says schoolwide literacy efforts produced large participation gains
Summary
Bonnie Warren, the school’s reading coach, told the board that a Beanstack fundraiser, sight‑word lists and fluency binders coincided with a rise in recorded reading minutes and that 193 students could read grade‑level sight words or a passage by April.
Bonnie Warren, the reading coach who identified herself at the meeting, told the Levy County School Board that a suite of low‑burden literacy interventions produced substantial growth in student participation and measured fluency. "No excuse not to have a book," Warren said as she described a schoolwide Book Blast fundraiser and a Beanstack incentive program that distributed books to every student.
Warren said the school logged roughly 79,491 minutes last year with about 13% participation; after…
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