Books face heavy competition for time in a kid’s world. Between social media videos, music apps, television, sports, and video games, it’s a wonder they ever have time to pick up a book. But District 75 administrators may have found one way to make books more enticing to their students. They’ve added book clubs as a small group literacy instruction option at Washington, Mechanics Grove and Carl Sandburg schools. The program is designed to develop students into active, thinking readers. Read More

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