What children say about reading at Dalton School:
“I love reading because you can go to a different world.”
“I used to hate reading but I have read every day and I am now a good reader.”
“I love reading because I love book reviews.”
“I love choosing new books”
“Reading affects children’s education because there are new words to learn.”
“Challenging books help me read because I push myself to learn new words and the more you read, the more you get used to it and the more you enjoy it.”
“ERIC time is amazing because it makes me feel calm after chaos.”
“I love reading because it lets you escape from this world into another.”
“I love reading because it is relaxing.”
“The overlay makes me read faster and this helps.”
“ERIC is great because it gives us a space to read when we can’t find one at home.”
Writing
What children say about writing at Dalton School:
“I can use better adjectives to make my writing to describe it in greater depth.”
“I can use relative clauses to add more information to a sentence.”
“I can write neater, although it takes me a long time to do this.”
“I enjoy it because you can make your imagination run loose.”
“I like using thesauruses to find better vocabulary because it makes me feel smart when I read it back!”
“I love it when you finish your work and it looks beautiful and sounds like you are an author.”
“I love writing because I am good at it and because I read a lot, this makes my writing better.”
“I love writing because you can use your imagination and then you really get into it.”
“ I use subordinating conjunctions and this makes me so clever!”
“ I love writing informal letters as you really get to show your emotion and this makes your pencil move fast!”
“I feel empowered when I use words that I wouldn’t normally use”
“I love writing in first person because you feel you are actually there!”