Adopted: 11/17/2008

341.1

The School District of Prairie Farm

District Reading Instruction

The District reading program shall contribute to the total development of students. The program shall be designed to help students acquire reading competence which enables them to be effective communicators and experience success as citizens of the community.

The goals for the School District of Prairie Farm reading program shall be as follows:

1. To guide each student toward a level of achievement in reading that approaches the limit of his/her full potential.

2. To help students develop functional reading skills in addition to interrelated speaking, listening, writing and thinking skills.

3. To help each student apply reading skills which are directly related to his/her needs in real-life situations.

4. To help build student attitudes toward an interest in reading as a recreational and

functional skill.

5. To evaluate the reading program and student achievement annually.

LEGAL REF.: Sections 118.015 Wisconsin Statutes

121.02 (1) (c)

PI 8.01 (2) (c), Wisconsin Administrative Code