FSUSD Students Are Amazing Readers

Congratulations Fairfield-Suisun community!

We heard that you have AMAZING READERS! Students in our community are working hard to learn foundational reading skills that will serve as the building blocks for a lifelong love of reading and give them the ability to read to learn!

FSUSD Libraries is on a mission to promote literacy and help each student see themselves as a reader! We distributed 30 signs to our 1st and 2nd grade teachers and asked them to use the Amazing Reader sign as a way to promote literacy, celebrate accomplishments, and let students SEE THEMSELVES AS A READER.

We are excited to see the signs starting to pop up in neighborhoods as a way to promote literacy and celebrate a love of reading. Be sure to tweet the information and tag us in it! #FSUSDReads @FSUSDLibraries 

Here is some more information from a report prepared by the Solano County Library around 3rd grade literacy:

A study prepared in 2011 by Donald J. Hernandez, a sociology professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, entitled “Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation,” upped the ante nationally for public libraries, schools, and social service organizations, conclusively demonstrating that reading proficiency by third grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success. A student who can’t read on grade level by 3rd grade is four times less likely to graduate by age 19 than a child who does read proficiently by that time. Add poverty to the mix, and a student is 13 times less likely to graduate on time than his or her proficient, wealthier peer.