Event Title
Horses, Books and Kids: A Combination for Success in Service-Learning
Location
Farrar Hall, Room 131
Session
Session 3
Start Date
19-4-2012 2:30 PM
End Date
19-4-2012 3:30 PM
Description
Instilling a love for reading in children at an early age is crucial if they are to become life-long learners. The Horse-Tales Literacy Project uses horses as a motivational tool to encourage children to not only improve their reading skills, but to also develop the desire to read for the simple joy it brings. McNeese education majors enrolled in Methods for Teaching Language Arts participated in this program by working one-on-one with first grade children as reading coaches, developing curriculum for use with this program, and being teachers’ helpers throughout this unit of study. The end result--the children fell in love with reading!
Horses, Books and Kids: A Combination for Success in Service-Learning
Farrar Hall, Room 131
Instilling a love for reading in children at an early age is crucial if they are to become life-long learners. The Horse-Tales Literacy Project uses horses as a motivational tool to encourage children to not only improve their reading skills, but to also develop the desire to read for the simple joy it brings. McNeese education majors enrolled in Methods for Teaching Language Arts participated in this program by working one-on-one with first grade children as reading coaches, developing curriculum for use with this program, and being teachers’ helpers throughout this unit of study. The end result--the children fell in love with reading!