SmartReading Information

SmartReading has been created for teachers to equip students with more sophisticated ways to think with words -- and respond to words. In relatively short periods of time, students will become fluent readers - comfortably stretching their capabilities into more challenging books. Students will become more confident thinkers, skillfully applying a tool kit of innovative reading and writing strategies. The systematic, meaningful and explicit approaches outlined in this proven program provide a step-by-step process which will motivate all students to higher levels of achievement -- from kindergarten to college. The SmartReading program was founded in School District No. 40 (New Westminster) and is being systematically implemented in district research team classrooms around the province. Training seminars for teachers, principals and parents are presented regularly throughout British Columbia by a team of leading educators led by program founder Susan Close.