Reading for Fun

Research on Reading

For well over a decade North Country School has had a vibrant program of free reading called Title Trekking. Alison Follos - our librarian - engages students in "collecting literary 46ers" much as our hikers climb the Adirondack 46ers. The program supplements the school's Language Arts academic program. However, the specific goals of the Title Trek program are to have fun, to gain exposure to different genre, and to keep a journal of literary analysis. (As I always tell the children, NCS is philosophically a school without a trophy case, and there are only two ways to memorialize your name on a plaque ... one for free reading prowess and the other for exemplary performance on manual work jobs.)